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Depending on what is legit usage on port 80/443, you can ban rapid POSTs, which are almost always bots trying to brute-force login forms. Even if hammering a non-existing wp-admin isn't much of a risk, it will create noise that is annoying for any access statistics you might do.

Ulrich Schwarz
– Ulrich Schwarz

2020-08-14 06:17:27 +00:00
Commented Aug 14, 2020 at 6:17
Since 80 and 443 are for web servers, there's actually a lot fail2ban can do depending on the webapp that's hosted. I think this answer is misleading by suggesting it's just an SSH protection. It's really much more.

Philip Couling
– Philip Couling

2020-08-14 23:33:14 +00:00
Commented Aug 14, 2020 at 23:33

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