Anti botnet wordpress security practices

So, you got hit by the wordpress attack yesterday. I did, you did. We all did.

Freaked out yet? It was a huge botnet trying to crack your password

Anyone who doesn't know, a botnet is a large number (usually over 100,000) of computers all infected by some form of an attack, that can be remote controlled. The botnet yesterday was around 100,000.

Things you can do to protect yourself against it.

InMotionHosting: A review for those who don't INTERNETZ

This Wordpress blog is hosted by InMotionHosting, So, when I switched from blogger to word press (I switched back later)(which is why my posts older than this have some derps), I did some investigation. Wordpress.com seemed ok, but the price on damn near everything was way too expensive. Wordpress.org is nice, but you have to host your own page.

I decided to take the learning approach and purchased a shared host. I searched the internets, blog after blog, forum after forum. Some people say some say hostgator, some say bluehost , some say some other random esortic smalltime hosts.