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We migrated our site to siteground from a digital ocean droplet last night as the effort of managing a dedicated server is beyond the skills of our team. We were getting 504 errors so were advised to change the google crawl rate and limit heartbeat which we did.

Them overnight access was blocked to our site without warning due to violation of CPU seconds. The reason we chose siteground was because of their WordPress expertise but they gave us nothing to look for or change. Just recommend hiring someone to look at the server. Fair enough if we’re running something custom but it’s just a WordPress and BBPress site.

Appalled at this unprofessional approach. If you have a busy WordPress site stay away from siteground.

Glad I found this thread. Running Ultimate-Member with EDD on my site with reCAPTCHA on the registration page, have moved the WP default registration page to another URL so that it is obscured. Am running WP-Bruiser and Spam-Master and still I’m getting spam registrations. Seemed to start happening at around the 4.7.1 release for me.

Can’t work out where the registrations are coming from apart from I am getting an email when these spammers register. As Ultimate Member and EDD are set not to email when a user registers they must be coming from core but I don’t know how they are avoiding the anti-spam plugins.

Am running NGINX so a couple of the anti spam solutions don’t work (no .htaccess). Are others here running NGINX?

Trying to work out what the common component is.

Done