Yeah, Facebook insisted I confirm my identity and location because of the number of followers my author page has. It also insisted I install FB on my phone as a way of verifying my location. I didn't want it on my phone, but there you are.

My Wordpress site did get hacked once, but since installing Wordfence and other precautions, I haven't had a problem. People keep trying, but so far, so good.

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Also, I am tempted (again) to put up a fake WordPress login page on my site (which does not use WordPress) just to keep the less sophisticated would-be hackers busy trying to login to a page that wouldn't actually log them into anything.

Why not let them log in, and redirect them to a porn site.

They might enjoy that?

Maybe I could redirect them to a phishing site.    Let the scammers scam each other for a bit.

As a minor update, submissions from the comment form on my website remains mostly spam-free.  The one exception is the occasional submission from some janitorial service.  Either they have a real person submitting spam or their bot is able to figure out the obstacles on my form.  I need to edit the code to block them too regardless of whether they pass the challenges.

Also, I am tempted (again) to put up a fake WordPress login page on my site (which does not use WordPress) just to keep the less sophisticated would-be hackers busy trying to login to a page that wouldn't actually log them into anything.

I'd have to go through a tedious process to temporarily unlock if I needed to open a bank account, get a credit card, move, or take out a loan. All of those are at best unlikely. I would have thought twice if any of those were things I needed to do frequently, but that isn't the case.

Freezing credit is an easy step for mitigating identity theft. I think since the big breaches in the US, freezing must now be free at all bureaus.

I will note I had a bit of a hiccup when I discovered trying to sign up for a new internet provider required a hard credit pull, and despite unfreezing and giving it two days, the internet provider didn't see it as unfrozen. So if you have to unfreeze, I would recommend doing so for 1-2 weeks at a time so everything can percolate.

Update: I asked some presale questions of A2 Hosting and got answers back in a very short time. Same with follow-up for clarification.

I was particularly interesting in stuff that might screw up a migration, but they were able to put all my fears to rest.

Not only does switching hosts solve the Cloud Linux update issue (which is now meriting a link directly to the update script at the top of my cpanel dashboard) but it also solves a potential issue with Cloudflare. CF's more flexible packages require that you use their nameservers. Bluehost, while not forbidding the practice, clearly doesn't like it. There's even a request to correct the nameserver discrepancy buried deep in cpanel. Though it hasn't proved problematic yet, it might at some future point.

In contrast, A2 Hosting fully supports this kind of Bluehost arrangement and even explains how to set it up for someone doing it for the first time.

As far as costs are concerned, spending the same amount of money gets me a slightly better setup. I'll lose the money for the rest of my current BH term, but I won't have to risk blowing up my site over the CL update. Also, I'll be in a managed plan, so I'll never have to worry about OS updates again.