Title: Database size rises exponentially
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Database size rises exponentially

 *  [joxocafeco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joxocafeco/)
 * (@joxocafeco)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-size-rises-exponentially/)
 * Hi
    I am using the latest version of Wordfence. My problem is that the Wordfence
   tables in my database keep rising in size, reaching almost GBs, until I deactivate
   WF with settings deleted, and then reactivate it again, following which my database
   comes to 12 MB, and the process repeats itself. I assumed it might be due to 
   a brute force attack on my wp-login page, so I disabled access to wp-login for
   all others by means of .htaccess tweaks, such that you cannot access wp-login
   without first entering another password. Still, the problem persists. Any help
   will be appreciated.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/)

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 *  [WFBrian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfbrian/)
 * (@wfbrian)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-size-rises-exponentially/#post-7234832)
 * Hi,
 * Are you using Live Traffic? [Here](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-size-increase?replies=4)
   is a previous post with some suggestions on reducing the database size. Give 
   it a look and see if that helps.
 * Thanks!
    Brian

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