Does Hosting Affect “Increased Attack Rate” situation?

  • Resolved yesyeah

    (@yesyeah)


    5 years, 11 months ago

    Hello – I have various sites on a few different hosts.

    I get the “increased attack rate” message occasionally on a variety of sites.

    I was curious if the server the site sits on has anything to do with that? Does a shared server mean you’ll generally get more of those or is that totally unrelated?

    I have moved some sites from a VPS to a shared reseller and the one thing I HAVE noticed is a lot more brute force attack attempts than on the VPS. But I wouldn’t say the VPS gets any less “Increased Attack Rate” messages, so not sure if it has anything to do with anything. 🙂

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  • WFGerroald

    (@wfgerald)

    5 years, 11 months ago

    Hey @yesyeah,

    I know seeing this can be alarming. But the attack attempts doesn’t have anything to do with whether they’re on a shared server, or VPS. For the lack of better words, these are random and usually move on after X amount of after being unsuccessful. There’s only so much we can do to prevent attacks, it’s more about making sure they aren’t successful which it sounds like Wordfence is doing.

    Please let us know if anything else comes up, or if you have any other questions.

    Thanks,

    Gerroald

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