[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,

-- 
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>
> skype  gmcknight
> twitter gmcknight
> .
>
>
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