brute force protection and load on server

Hi,

The plugin doesn’t protect against “brute force hacking” and load on your server. It’s not possible since with this is a WordPress plugin.

To really solve the problem between brute force hacking and server load you need to configure your server and have protection built-in at the network/apache layers.

What this plugin will do is cut-short those brute force attempts by not processing them when detecting that it’s happening or there are attempts to circumvent the site’s normal authentication process.

It certainly wont stop your server falling over due to massive brute force hacking.

I hope that helps.
Paul.

ok thnaks… i thought it might have similar protection to something like https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/ninjafirewall/

This is quite different since it is not actually a plugin (though it does have a plugin “version”).

This is something we’re considering releasing, but it wont be there for a long time.

This effectively boots into WordPress after it’s done the initial request processing and so it’s not strictly speaking a WordPress plugin.

Cheers,
Paul.

And I meant to also say, Ninja Firewall will also not be capable of preventing your site from falling to its knees with a sustained attack.