Good point on spammer registration - I think I'll go ahead and configure the blacklist settings i have from my main server, seems to keep everything at bay for the last 2 years. Though... a plugin may be the better option as these settings might be over-rided when the import feature is used to import a different site.
Well I think for now I'll just configure it without the spam registration plugin and do some testing - As far as caching I use WP super cache on the PressPi image. I considered adding a minify plugin as well - but I know some premuim themes have a built in minify API and I didn't want that conflicting and causing problems. ( thrive themes comes to mind here )... But perhaps I am over thinking that one.
In any event - I installed fail2ban - Seems to test ok, kicking me out after 6 failed login attempts via putty. As far as phpmyadmin goes...still working on getting that going and having some difficulty. But I'll sort it out soon enough i'm sure
