<div dir="ltr">Hi All <div><br></div><div>I recently had lots of problems with our ISOC Canada website which is a CMS. Wordpress and CiviCRM site a couple of weeks before our AGM and busy time sending out notices for updating annual membership payments</div><div><br></div><div>It was seriously attacked with a Brute Attack causing the site to be off-line or extremely slow. </div><div><br></div><div>I increase the RAM and Storage on the VPS server and it still crawled at 100% CPU useage. The attack was deep and very annoying </div><div><br></div><div>Solution</div><div>1. Restored to a month ago </div><div>2. Increased RAM and Storage</div><div>3. Install Plugins Disable-XMP-RPC</div><div><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-xml-rpc/">https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-xml-rpc/</a><br></div><div>4. Install Plugin Limit Attempt Booster</div><div>5 Installed Captaca on the JOIN US page</div><div><br></div><div>Its now very fast and running at 12% CPU capacity </div><div><br></div><div>If anyone is running Wordpress on your site, I suggest these plugins and do a backup.</div><div><br></div><div>G</div><div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Glenn McKnight<br><a href="mailto:mcknight.glenn@gmail.com" target="_blank">mcknight.glenn@gmail.com</a><br>skype gmcknight<br>twitter gmcknight<br>.</div></div></div>
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