Title: MYSQL firewall capability?
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# MYSQL firewall capability?

 *  [SLIS](https://wordpress.org/support/users/slis/)
 * (@slis)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mysql-firewall-capability/)
 * Hi Paul!
 * Have another question for you: for the past 2 weeks I’ve had intermittent site
   freezing. I’ve been going back and forth with Hostgator trying to figure it out
   and they’re suggesting that it’s an issue with MYSQL with its connection limit
   reached too frequently.
 * One agent noticed I had a very weak MYSQL password which was perhaps the issue
   with bots trying to access my site. He gave me a stronger password, but the issue
   remains intermittent. They’ve also performed security tests and everything looks
   clean on my end.
 * So my question is, is there anyway to add MYSQL firewalls with this plugin? I
   do have the “block sql queries’ selected. Just wondered if there was anything
   else I could do to stop the slow loading. My site has been running smoothly for
   months, so this has just been frustrating trying to figure out a fix.
 * Apologies if I’m not being precise enough in my terminology. I’m not very well
   versed in MYSQL issues.
 * Thanks!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-simple-firewall/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-simple-firewall/)

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 * [Simple Security Firewall](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/simple-security-firewall/)

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 * Last reply from: [SLIS](https://wordpress.org/support/users/slis/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mysql-firewall-capability/)
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