[Chapter-delegates] Suggestion for ISOC Chapters with Wordpress templates
Leah Symekher
leahs at isc.org
Tue Apr 19 13:14:25 PDT 2016
Thank you Glenn for sharing.
We run Wordpress so will take your advice. Totally appreciated.
Regards,
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Leah Symekher
SFBay ISOC Chapter
On 4/19/16 4:51 AM, Glenn McKnight wrote:
> Hi All
>
> 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
>
> It was seriously attacked with a Brute Attack causing the site to be
> off-line or extremely slow.
>
> 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
>
> Solution
> 1. Restored to a month ago
> 2. Increased RAM and Storage
> 3. Install Plugins Disable-XMP-RPC
> https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-xml-rpc/
> 4. Install Plugin Limit Attempt Booster
> 5 Installed Captaca on the JOIN US page
>
> Its now very fast and running at 12% CPU capacity
>
> If anyone is running Wordpress on your site, I suggest these plugins
> and do a backup.
>
> G
>
>
> Glenn McKnight
> mcknight.glenn at gmail.com <mailto:mcknight.glenn at gmail.com>
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> twitter gmcknight
> .
>
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