yourtech

Cloudflare WAF option is a paid option. Is there anything that I can use for free? My website is very small and I can’t afford paid firewall options at the moment.

Wow. Thank you for sharing your experience. I will definitely try this plugin.

Here are the suggestions:

1. Reduce DNS lookups
– It is more likely to do with your web hosting provider.

2. Use cookie free domain
– You can do if there is no user registration on your website.

3. Add expires headers
– You can do it by adding expire headers code in .htaccess code.

<IfModule mod_expires.c>

ExpiresActive On
# Images

ExpiresByType image/jpeg “access plus 1 year”

ExpiresByType image/gif “access plus 1 year”

ExpiresByType image/png “access plus 1 year”

ExpiresByType image/webp “access plus 1 year”

ExpiresByType image/svg+xml “access plus 1 year”

ExpiresByType image/x-icon “access plus 1 year”

# Video

ExpiresByType video/mp4 “access plus 1 year”

ExpiresByType video/mpeg “access plus 1 year”

# CSS, JavaScript

ExpiresByType text/css “access plus 1 month”

ExpiresByType text/javascript “access plus 1 month”

ExpiresByType application/javascript “access plus 1 month”

# Others

ExpiresByType application/pdf “access plus 1 month”

ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash “access plus 1 month”

</IfModule>

4. Minimize redirects
– This is done through .htaccess file

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• This reply was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by yourtech.

I would recommend you to review settings again and see what has caused wordfence to block your own IP address and make changes accordingly. For the time being hide your IP Address or change your IP to get access and unblock your own IP address from wordfenc firewall.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by yourtech.