Security plugin recommendations? (part 2)

Rank Math won me over after Yoast nagged me one time too many.

I stopped using page builders once the block editor matured.

Never let WordPress send mail natively on a VPS — use SMTP or a transactional service.

Caching is the single biggest performance win on cheap shared hosting.

Rank Math here too — the schema options alone are worth it.

Rank Math here too — the schema options alone are worth it.

Page builders still have their place for landing pages, just not whole sites.

My baseline list is almost identical to yours.

Bumping this because I ran into the same thing today.