Mika Epstein

It was announced here: https://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2012/04/04/improvements-to-outgoing-spam-prevention-policy/

FWIW, I wrote about it here: https://elftest.net/contact-form-7-and-anti-spam/

It goes in the aditional headers section

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/plugin-contact-form-7-additional-header-reply-to?replies=5

I believe you should have:

From: WordPress <[email protected]>
Reply-to: [your-name] <[your-email]>

The from and to, on a DreamHost server, have to be the same domain as what you’re hosted on.

So if your domain is Shtadtlender.com, then both from AND too have to be [email protected]

You should have your reply-to email set to the from address you want.

I replied to you via DreamHost, but two things:

1) Your .htaccess was empty this morning

2) Your wp-config.php was missing all the additional multisite lines.

Understanding “Why is my site slow?” is one of the more annoying and cryptic aspects of a website, since it pretty much all comes down to “What are you doing and how?”

The load on your server is a little high, though not terribly. Looking at your error log (it’s in ~/logs/DOMAIN/http/error.log) I see a lot of messages like this: Premature end of script headers: index.php

Since support already said you had high load (NB A user having high load is not the same as the whole server though they do impact each other), what’s happening is that PHP is timing out before it can do everything.

“Great, Elf Girl, how do I fix that?” you may be thinking. (Yes, I call myself Elf Girl)

1) You’re not running any caching plugins. You’re on shared hosting. I would recommend WP Super Cache. When you do set it up, make it use mod_rewrite (aka the .htaccess rules) and not PHP

2) You’re using PageSpeed (YAY!) – Consider some of the pagespeed customizations: https://wiki.dreamhost.com/Page_Speed_Optimization#Customizations

3) Consider GZIP: https://wiki.dreamhost.com/Htaccess_tricks#Faster_Page_Load_Times_.2F_Bandwidth_Saver – You can speed up load time and it plays nicely with WP Super Cache

4) Make sure you’re not running ‘Regenerate Thumbnails’ a lot. It’s HEAVY on the load.

5) You may need to bump PHP memory a little, btu I would hold off on that until you do the other things first.

I actually signed up with CloudFlare through CloudFlare’s site because I didn’t like that DreamHost requires “www” to be added to domains.

Actually CloudFlare’s the one who requires that :/ Or rather it’s a DNS RFC thing.

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200169886-Can-I-use-a-naked-domain-no-www-with-CloudFlare-

CloudFlare Rep, we have blockquotes, they’re awesome ??

If you’re using DreamHost’s CloudFlare integration (via your Panel) then you won’t need the plugin for CloudFlare IP, as we have mod_cloudflare installed and it does the same thing.

W3TC also can do the same thing as the IP plugin.

You can check the IP of a comment by leaving one yourself and making sure it’s YOUR IP ??

*heh* Well telling us HERE means you have to wait for WP to email me that there’s a new DreamHost specific ticket that needs my love, and then for me to catch up with all my management stuff to come back around. In general, if something changes on a server, start with the server people ?? If something changed in WP, start here, and so on ?? Just logical, is all.

I know we’ve been backlogged with tickets (we pulled a lot of overtime to catch up) so our speed should be back to same-day replies.

If you look at the DNS for greenberg, it’s pointing to a different IP. It ends in 67 and should end in 85

If you reply to the email that has the Subject: Moved account [number] from [server], you can just say “The domain [greenberg] is still pointing to the old IP, can someone please kick the server?”

Gonna be faster than posting in WP about that one, for sure. I ran the command and the IP is now correct, so that should catch up soon. If it’s not okay in an hour, open a ticket and someone with more DNS power than I can take a bigger hammer to it.

That the emails ARE eventually coming is a good thing… But I wonder if you did actually move the email over to MT? You may not have updated the DNS tables correctly. Assuming your domain really is longestshortesttime.com I took a look and you’ve still got hosting set up with us (that is, your domain is set to use MT’s nameservers, which is good, but you’re still paying for hosting which if you’re using their email, is not needed).

1) Why not? Seriously, though, DreamHost (20 years ago) started small, and didn’t pay for cPanel or Plesk, and basically built that panel and kept it. It’s quirky ?? We like it.

2) Me too! Gotta train them on WP too!

3) Beats me. I can ask someone to go back and check if you’d like. It’s a mystery system to me.

4) careerbreeer.in isn’t a real domain. Did you typo? I can check on that myself if needed.

5) No, it’s general shared hosting. Pretty much the same as anyone else, only ours has people who are seriously individuals as tech support ??

I try to take weekends off for my sanity ??

1) We made it ourselves.

2) We know, we’re working on it! We need more humans, but we don’t want to just hire warm bodies.

3) Depending on how you paid, that might be the holding fee, but the accounts people don’t get in till 9am (PT, so about an hour). Paypal has been known to do weird things, as have debit/credit cards. That said, I have to go ask for help when I fix accounts with money stuff. Much happier as a code monkey.

4) Because you need a domain to use hosting ?? Demo is a trial.

5) I would say ‘Use what works best for you.’ Honestly, it’s a needs based decision. If you start on shared, it’s easy to transfer that to DreamPress, though!

I’ve done that too ??

alleycakes – Huzzah! Sometimes getting caching set up is more complicated than a root canal. About as much fun too ??

toshibaprimer – You should make your own topic since unless you’re also on DreamHost and on a VPS like alleycakes