Before using this plugin, have some quesion

  • S o f t f u l l y

    (@softfully)


    9 years, 10 months ago

    Hi,

    Before using this plugin, we have few important questions.

    Following 2 options is enabled in our site:
    1. Users must be registered and logged in to comment
    2.Comment must be manually approved

    Following 2 options is disabled in our site:
    1. Attempt to notify any blogs linked to from the article
    2. Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks) on new articles

    So we don’t have any kind of spam in comments or form.
    Also we added Valid Hostname Filter & Referral Spam Filter in Google Analytics so it’s spam free there and everything works fine.

    Now the main question is that we are receiving 25 to 30 hits in all different pages at a time with different IP’s from Country: Russian / City: Moscow and eat our all website resources for 5 minutes and this happens 1 or 2 times daily and also we don’t find this in any kind of Analytics Tools. Every thing goes inside 5 minutes and then back to normal. Please keep in mind that they hit pages. Not homepage. And also no reports in any kind of Analytics Tools…

    For example :
    http://www.site.com (10 Hits at a time)
    http://www.site.com/post3/ (4 Hits at a time)
    http://www.site.com/post4/ (4 Hits at a time)
    http://www.site.com/post5/ (4 Hits at a time)
    http://www.site.com/post6/ (4 Hits at a time)

    All above hits are at a time from different IP’s and different locations from Moscow and near by…
    Click this link to view screenshot: https://goo.gl/I4fNZW

    So please let us know, will this plugin help us with above problem or not?

    Thanks

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/

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  • mountainguy2

    (@mountainguy2)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    Give it a shot. Wordfence with “Participate in the Real-Time WordPress Security Network” blocks a lot of those visits with no user intervention, and get the premium version and use all the country blocking possible. Combining country blocking and other Wordfence blocking features can block a lot of traffic. You’ll still get many bot visits but they’ll be immediately blocked before they can use bandwidth traversing your site.

    Yet, it’s imperative to also place IP block and other security rules in .htaccess file, as well as setting up your server firewall so you block some of the really bad guys at server level.

    Wordfence is at the bottom of the triad: server;htaccess;Wordfence

    MTN

    Thread Starter S o f t f u l l y

    (@softfully)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    We can’t block country because of some real visitors and also have traffic from worldwide.

    wflandon

    (@wflandon)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    Hi Softfully Team,

    I would agree with most of mountainguy2’s comments. I think the “Participate in the Real-Time WordPress Security Network” would be beneficial to you. However, it probably would not solve all your problems if these hits are from very random IPs. There are ways to block ranges of IP addresses if there are any patterns to the hits being registered. Wordfence also has “Rate Limiting Rules” for bots, crawlers, human visitors, etc. and “Live Traffic” that might help you to troubleshoot.

    Hope that helps!

    Let us know.

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