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WordPress 3 Ultimate Security
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This should be your overriding concern.
A server or site with issues can lead to more than functional problems, downtime, and data loss. It can lead to a lack of user confidence, the spreading of malware, the sliding of your hard-won search engine ranking, and ultimately, of wasted time and income.
If you've clearly been hacked or are trying to wrap your head around an uncertain issue, to play it safe, bring the site safely down into maintenance mode.
There are two ways to do this.
If you have a functioning Dashboard, you could use a plugin such as Michael Wöhrer's aptly named Maintenance Mode to inform visitors that your site's taking some time out:

On the plugin's options page, ensure that you set the Splash Page Theme preference to Use 503.php from theme folder and check the box Apply HTTP header '503 Service Unavailable' and 'Retry-After <backtime>' to Maintenance Mode splash page. Properly, that throws a 503 Error (service...
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