Is this true?

  • Resolved aisha70

    (@aisha70)


    11 years ago

    I’m just wondering if the following is true or if my hosting company don’t know what they’re talking about. I am constantly having problems with my database going down and the last time it did, they came back with this;

    I’ve replaced any instances of LOCK_EX in your WordFence configuration because this has been known to cause file locking and database locking problems.

    It may be coincidence but since then I’ve had no alerts from Wordfence (and usually I would get at least 3 a day).

    So, is there any truth in what he told me, or not?

    Any help would be appreciated.
    Thanks.
    p.s fantastic plugin

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

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  • Plugin Author Mark Maunder

    (@mmaunder)

    11 years ago

    Your hosting company doesn’t know what they’re talking about. I’d recommend finding another.

    LOCK_EX is a file locking routine that we use to lock the .htaccess file before we modify it so that another process doesn’t modify it at the same time. Removing it will cause corruption of your .htaccess file which will cause your site to become unavailable when it responds with an HTTP 500 error.

    It’s a bit like opening up a car’s hood while the engine is running, saying that the distributor has been known to have problems and removing it.

    Regards,

    Mark.

    Thread Starter aisha70

    (@aisha70)

    11 years ago

    They are useless. I had my suspicions as soon as he said it. I am definitely moving to another one very soon. I asked him would it interfere with how Wordfence works and he replied:

    No, it won’t interfere with it, it just makes it more efficient and prevents it from locking the database.

    And i thought to myself..that doesn’t sound right really. Glad to know my suspicions were correct. If I uninstall the Wordfence plugin and then reinstall it, will it correct whatever he did?

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