Host Firewall & Jetpack Protection?

  • Resolved wappguru

    (@wappguru)


    6 years, 4 months ago

    Hello, I was wondering about having too much protection on WordPress sites to where it may slow down performance.

    My VPS hosting plan allows for each domain to have it’s own monitoring and firewall setup. Should this be completely disabled if I have WordFence installed on a domain that uses only WordPress?

    Also, I use the Single Sign On feature with Jetpack and a few other options but with most of the options disabled. The have options for brute force attacks and login security, do these mix up with WordFence stuff and can I leave them disabled?

    If it’s better to use the firewall via my VPS hosting provider’s panel, should I disable WordFence firewall?

    Thanks.

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  • Plugin Support wfscott

    (@wfscott)

    Hello @wappguru,

    Using two firewalls together at different application levels is generally acceptable. Being that one is through your hosting, and Wordfence is working through WordPress, you should be fine there. If you experience any issues, I would start by disabling the VPS firewall. As far as performance, you shouldn’t notice much difference using both.

    As for the other plugins, a general rule of thumb is to ideally not have two plugins which touch the same functionality, such as login. Wordfence does a great job at login security and having two plugins focusing on that could cause issues at some point.

    Give the two firewalls a try, and in the event you only need one, keep in mind that Wordfence has a lot of options to keep you aware and protected.

    -Scott

    Hi @wappguru,
    Since we haven’t heard from you for a while I’m going to go ahead and resolve this thread. If you have any other questions or concerns, don’t hesitate to open a new one.

    Thanks!

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