Wordfence Premium - Worth It?

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#183958 4-Nov-2015 17:00

I've used Wordfence on a couple of Wordfence sites I host and now am considering going premium? - Largely due to a recent attack. Has anyone used it? Is it worth it?

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#1420986 4-Nov-2015 17:04

What advantages do you want from premium you don't get from free. Are you using something like Cloudflare as another layer of protection?

Dulouz

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#1421013 4-Nov-2015 17:05

I just want the sites to be secure. I'm not using CloudFlare would you recommend it?

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#1421021 4-Nov-2015 17:13

Yes, for performance and some extra protection against threats. What kind of attack got your site recently? Wordfence can slow your site down a bit, I turn of most of the functions.

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#1421035 4-Nov-2015 17:32

Have you looked at a dedicated wordpress host instead that includes such services? A Wordpress website that is only using basic features, can work out as quite an expensive website (including labour costs in keeping it upto date), when you compare it to a website builder like Squarespace.

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#1421201 4-Nov-2015 21:22

I've used both, Wordpress is much more flexible. Run an automatic update plugin, plus an automated backup plugin to back up off the host, that keeps security good - plus some basics like never use an account called admin and don't post using your admin account.

SS is simpler though, but way way way less flexible.

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#1421478 5-Nov-2015 10:48

Looks like I might have over reacted. I had an alert from Wordfence saying that File contains suspected malware URL in the w3 total cache plugin.

Although it seems it is not a major issue - https://wordpress.org/support/topic/malware-url-in-readmetxt

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#1421498 5-Nov-2015 11:06

It's a false positive, I got it for all my sites as well. Text files are very unlikely to ever be a problem.