Why Falcon cache engine is going to be removed?

Here’s my guess….it’s being removed due to some issue. I’ve been with Wordfence for some time now. They certainly don’t do things for no reason. Since they have not replied to any of these requests publicly, it’s might be a security issue or something else that compromises their plugin. I would think that due to the success of Falcon it would be launched as a separate plugin.

I thought Falcon engine is the only option to block attacking IPs at .htaccess level and stop bottlenecking PHP/MySQL.

Will be an alternative that will offer .htaccess level IP block or we are heading to replace Wordfence with another plugin that does that?

Anyway it’s a shame that they didn’t give us a heads up explanation. I’m using wordfence just for the scan and Falcon features. If I’m being forced to find an alternative solution for caching, I think there is no point to keep this plugin just for the scan while there is software like WPScan available.

Seems a very short statement to make about such an excellent cache product used by many.
What is going on?
Wordfence please advise what this is all about.
We want the Falcon engine!

Falcon Engine 10/2016. Never Forget.

Their caching was lightweight and really good. Ugh.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by helloelectro1.

Can’t believe it either. A dam fine, easy to use product is being discontinued. I have it installed on over 50 web sites and they have just generated masses of work for me.

If I’m having to modify every web site then I might as well remove Plugin and install a competitor. I have the premium service and my multi-year licence runs out in 2 months time, I’m not inclined to renew if they are now offering poorer value. Not Impressed.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by bluefusion.

Please don’t remove the cacheing features!
The Falcon engine works well (except for a few hostings, but still there’s the Basic version), the way it creates static content is great, and most important is just an on/off setting!

I hope the WordFence developers will explain their decision and listen to their users ??

The only reason I see is that the engine’s author/team is not satisfied with something anymore and is going to set his own company to sell the engine apart from Wordfence. So, dear colleagues, you have some patience and be rewarded

• This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by yurking.

@yurking,

Sure, but if you have dozens of client sites depending on them, you can not afford to wait.
I am already testing other caching to replace falcon if they don’t come up with some answers and solution as in offering Falcon as a seperate plugin ( free or premium ).

My test today with one of my webshops:

10.16 seconds without falcon ( large product archive page )
937 MILIseconds if falcon is enabled on that same large page!!

Not an option in a webshop to wait and drive away costumers from webshops like these.
For those of us with lots of sites and shops and falcon enabled, this means tremendous extra work to change to something else…..pppfffff

• This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by LogoLogics.

On a setup video https://vimeo.com/91217997 the guy mumbles his name, I cann’t really get it, can you?

Then we can use 6-hands-rule to find out when and when.

Please, give a try to catch the name. The rest is easy, I’m sure

@yurking The name is easy, it’s Mark Maunder, the CEO of Wordfence.

With this 6.2.1. update they are already disabling the performance tab!!

I have tested the simple caching plugin and it gets the same results as Falcon so can not wait for this, will start changing all client sites a.s.a.p.

Thanks wordfence!:-)

Easy mate, the world has got you are in deep performance troubles. If you can’t change it, change urself, remember? We are looking for Mr. Mark Maunder’s e-mail or phones, allegedly the CEO of Wordfence, right?
So, this is where you MUST put your best efforts onto, I swear…

Thanks to Jos Klever, we know exactly whose addresses we are looking for.

Important thing now is a plan A where I’d recommend no personal or private letters to Mark. There should be a page “markmaunderreadthis.org” with manifest to him and a global score table with undersigned Falcon users. He shall have it understood how many people’d wanted his creature back and how many’d had not. This is the key for such a genius who he really is, we swear.

Who’s gonna host and design that page?

I am not trying to change the world, just keeping my sites optimized ??

Here: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/wordfence-version-6-2-1-released/
you can send an e-mail with feedback to wordfence, which I did.

Believe me support and management are seeing all these messages and setting up a site just to address the founder is not going to change anything in my opinion, but you are free to set it up.

I do not think this is done in a spur of the moment, they have decided and that’s it.
Maybe they will come up with something else, but if they had that in mind, they would have annonced that already right?

I can not let clients lose clients and sales because their pages suddenly load in 14 to 20 seconds instead of 900 miliseconds with caching.

Simple cache will do for me, but frustraded because of the sudden changes and all the extra work. It is what it is!!

• This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by LogoLogics.

By the way they have a facebookpage as well: