WP+ Edition ASN blocking – load?

  • Resolved saintandrews

    (@saintandrews)


    5 years, 9 months ago

    Blocking by one AS number rather than by all the netblock ranges comprising it would obviously be more efficient; my question is, at what load cost.

    In the premium WP+ Edition offering such blocking, how is the server load to accomplish this allocated? Entirely onto the server of the user running WP+? Remotely via API or other lookup? To the point, how functional would WP+ be on a shared server and what additional load would be assumed over the free addition?

    Thanks in advance.

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  • Plugin Author nintechnet

    (@nintechnet)

    5 years, 9 months ago

    It is available in the WP+ Edition. The plugin includes the databases (stored on disk, not in MySQL). It isn’t a remote API because that would be awfully slow. There’s no impact at all about performances: the firewall check the IP’s ASN, and then compare it to your ASN whitelist and blacklist.
    I’ve ran ApacheBench, with 100+ concurrent connections and there were absolutely no difference with or without it.
    For the data, we rely on Maxmind databases, but we don’t use their format. Instead we extract their data and recreate a database with a new format which is much quicker.

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