Thanks Paul, I like the scanning and Wordfence was the first …

Comment on Adding Flare To WordPress Management – Integrate CloudFlare Into Your iControlWP Account by Mark E.

Thanks Paul,

I like the scanning and Wordfence was the first plugin that I used for security based on a recommendation but on it’s own it could not defined against brute force admin attempts that where bring my site to a crawl (It helped but did not fix it like I wanted it too).

I upgraded to the paid version and blocked unwanted parts of the world, again it helped but my site was again taken down with brute force attacks. The blocking IP’s trick did not work as the attacks changed the ip every couple attempts.

I tried other plugins and tools over a 6 month period (Site getting hammered from time to time), without much luck, in an effort to stop my site being made available by pointless login attempts (They where not even using valid user names!).

Was not until I put simple firewall on with login protect that the issue was solved. I removed the other tools that tried but did not work at locking down the login page but kept Wordfence (Have paid for it for for a year).

After that I got iControlWP and now CloudFlare.

My thinking is that Wordfence my now be surplus to requirements if CloudFlare and Simple Firewall do there jobs properly. (If it had worked well I would have never found your tools!)

Mark

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