Title: Too Much Server Load
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Too Much Server Load

 *  [bulewold](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bulewold/)
 * (@bulewold)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/too-much-server-load/)
 * Hi there! Thanks for great plugin, I use this on my WP to protect which works
   great!!
 * But my VPS just told me that WP better security is using a lot of resource and
   slowing down my site.
 * Is there anything we can do to reduce the load? Any help would be appreciated!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/)

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 *  [dwinden](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dwinden/)
 * (@dwinden)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/too-much-server-load/#post-6840993)
 * [@bulewold](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bulewold/)
 * Please use the new plugin name, iThemes Security.
 * Start with disabling **Scheduled Database Backups** (if enabled) and then you
   could also disable the **File Change Detection** (if enabled) feature. These 
   2 are known to potentially use a lot of resources.
 * Oh one other thing, every plugin slows down your site… 😉
 * dwinden
 *  Thread Starter [bulewold](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bulewold/)
 * (@bulewold)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/too-much-server-load/#post-6841033)
 * Noted on the name. 🙂 I actually have those two already disabled, do you know
   what will be next thing I can try?
 *  [dwinden](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dwinden/)
 * (@dwinden)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/too-much-server-load/#post-6841038)
 * [@bulewold](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bulewold/)
 * Is there any evidence that supports the claim of the iTSec plugin “using a lot
   of resource and slowing down your site” ?
 * Without ANY further info its hard to say anything about this? Visitors of this
   forum are usually not in the paragnostic business 😉
 * dwinden
 *  Thread Starter [bulewold](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bulewold/)
 * (@bulewold)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/too-much-server-load/#post-6841041)
 * They actually gave me log when we had spike. Bbpress was #1 and itheme security
   was #3 on it but it also could be something running at that time. Ill look at
   the code soon n update.

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/too-much-server-load/#post-6841041)
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