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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Thank you Glenn for sharing. <br>
We run Wordpress so will take your advice. Totally appreciated.<br>
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Leah Symekher
SFBay ISOC Chapter</pre>
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On 4/19/16 4:51 AM, Glenn McKnight wrote:<br>
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<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>
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<div>It was seriously attacked with a Brute Attack causing the
site to be off-line or extremely slow. </div>
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<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>
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<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 moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-xml-rpc/">https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-xml-rpc/</a><br>
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<div>4. Install Plugin Limit Attempt Booster</div>
<div>5 Installed Captaca on the JOIN US page</div>
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<div>Its now very fast and running at 12% CPU capacity </div>
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<div>If anyone is running Wordpress on your site, I suggest
these plugins and do a backup.</div>
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