scottkr24 on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] 3000+ High CPU Brute Force Attack...
Found it just before I got your reply. I set it to 5 and if its still annoying I'll set it to 1. Anyway I just sent my Admin guy your reply to see if he can do anything to protect my server that he...
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anyone know about this? https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-fail2ban/
View Articlepingram3541 on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] 3000+ High CPU Brute Force...
Yes I've used that with a digital ocean droplet I had but it's something that does require direct server access to install and use. Most cpanel accounts don't have access to installing that or lack of...
View ArticleIcarusD on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] 3000+ High CPU Brute Force Attack...
The exact same thing has been happening to me. My CPU usage shot up to over 50% as a result (my hosting company wants me to keep my usage below 2%). I submitted a support ticket with Wordfence with...
View Articlethemadproducer on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] 3000+ High CPU Brute Force...
Was the 50% figure a daily average or a PEAK SPIKE? Reason I ask, is that a spike or a short term burst shouldn't be an issue as the daily average cpu usage could still be under 2%...according to...
View ArticleIcarusD on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] 3000+ High CPU Brute Force Attack...
The 50% was at the peak yesterday (October 16). Once I blocked login attempts from every country outside of North America, the attempts to log in moved to cities in the U.S. like Orlando and Chicago. I...
View ArticleIcarusD on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] 3000+ High CPU Brute Force Attack...
I should add that on the days that the CPU usage shot up, the top processes for each day were all for the WordPress login page.
View Articlethemadproducer on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] 3000+ High CPU Brute Force...
Are you the only one that is supposed to be logging in? If yes, then you may want to try what I did in htaccess and place a whitelist for wp-login.php that only includes your IP. It's been incredibly...
View Articlelightsoutdave on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] 3000+ High CPU Brute Force...
In a load balanced network with multiple web nodes, modifying the htaccess can be unpredictable since you may write the rule to the htaccess only on node1 and then it may not exist when node3 tries to...
View ArticleWFMattR on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] 3000+ High CPU Brute Force Attack...
@lightsoutdave: Thanks for the input. This may be an option in a future version, though people who have shared hosting won't be able to take advantage of it unless their host is willing to coordinate...
View Articlefortgordonmwr on "[Plugin: Advanced Access Manager] AAM Adding Major Strain...
When I select the checkboxes for default access to Backend categories and posts under the "Posts & Pages" section, it's taking anywhere from 10 seconds to over a minute for the checkmark to appear....
View ArticleVasyltech on "[Plugin: Advanced Access Manager] AAM Adding Major Strain on Site"
Hi fortgordonmwr, AAM does not have any part of functionality that will require so much time to execute. Even if it was not true, PHP will trigger an error because of 30 seconds execution timeout...
View ArticleJeremy Herve on "[Plugin: Jetpack by WordPress.com] Cannot deactivate Jetpack"
I'm sorry to hear you've run into issues. Let's try to address these issues one by one: I have had problems in the past 100% on every WordPress installation with the sites being crashed via brute force...
View Articlemanuel38 on "[Plugin: Jetpack by WordPress.com] Cannot deactivate Jetpack"
Hi Jeremy, Thanks. Great info here. Let me go through all of this and gather the data and get back to you. Thanks!
View ArticleJoe Silva on "Server keeps crashing, cannot determine the cause"
Can you post the output of your php.ini file, I am interested in seeing the memory and script timeouts for PHP. With that type of web traffic, you may be maxing out your resources. With over 100k...
View Articlemanuel38 on "[Plugin: Jetpack by WordPress.com] Cannot deactivate Jetpack"
Oh no... I just typed out a huge reply to this and lost it. 1. OK installed that, thanks. 2. Very familiar with CloudFlare and have it properly configured. 3. Didn't nkow that, thanks, will do. 4....
View Articlemanuel38 on "[Plugin: Jetpack by WordPress.com] Cannot deactivate Jetpack"
So some more details... As mentioned disabling Jetpack seems to make the problem less severe (it's the only plugin that has a marked effect on performance) but it certainly doesn't fix it. I've tried...
View Articlemanuel38 on "[Plugin: Jetpack by WordPress.com] Cannot deactivate Jetpack"
OK and now here are all things I've done so far to troubleshoot. 1) Cloned my server to rule out a hardware problem. No improvement. 2) Took an image of another server running a WordPress site with...
View ArticleJeremy Herve on "[Plugin: Jetpack by WordPress.com] Cannot deactivate Jetpack"
5. 520 errors were through CloudFlare. If I can create them again and see them without CloudFlare I'll report back. Excellent. 520 errors don't tell us much, so as recommended by CloudFlare it might be...
View Articleonirgoc on "[Plugin: Simple History] Server Load / CPU Usage / Page load time"
Hello, sorry to say : same here. Runtime by Plugin : 58% for simple history Memory Usage: 103 mb without simple history : 75 mb MYSQL Queries: 123 without simple history : 118
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