Sadly, completely unusable
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Tried this plugin because WordFence is getting too bloated and too limited in planning scans (I now have hundreds of websites on several servers who will always start their scans at roughly the same time, causing major performance problems), their free versions options dont work (like, literally, disabling scheduled scans doesnt change anything) and buying it (while having no guarantee the pro version is any better) would costs me thousands. So, lets try AIOS! Paid options look much more reasonable. We also use UpdraftPlus a lot, same company, should be good, right? (even tho the UI of updraft is horribly outdated, its a fairly solid plugin).
Pleasantly surprised at first, lots of options and ways to make WP more secure and a nice smooth process to follow to set all that up, so far so good.
Using AOIS Cloudflare Turnstile integration to protect the login, which sadly works very poorly. Need to wave the mousecursor around on the screen for several seconds otherwise it’ll think you are a bot and tell you your password is incorrect when trying to log in (even though its correct). So, unuseable sadly, so disabled that.
A few days later, the client complained couldn’t get into the admin. I couldn’t either, no one could, no matter from what location or IP. The admin entirely locked up. Renaming the plugin allowed me to get back in, so its definitely AIOS fault. Re-enabling it, and it immediately locks everyone out again. So we’re stuck at this position. I don’t have the time or patience to go look whats wrong with it (probably solveable by deleting the database entries for it). This is my first experience with the plugin, and its a mess.
(Besides the fact that the plugin recommends you to perform all sorts of vague security-through-obscurity methods, which is all horrible advice to give, especially to base scores on)No longer excited, I’ll be looking for other plugins.
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