Site performance, Server errors, outages and tunings

[Like Ra]

I've finally tweaked the "fancybox" plugin (the one that shows the gallery) - the thumbnails load 3 times faster now, almost do not use CPU (no PHP processing) and are fully cached.

Some preliminary results:

   

The CPU load dropped quite obviously.

So did the page load time and page size:

       

[Like Ra]

I'm currently experimenting with the Apache security module (application firewall) - another thing I should've added years ago. Theoretically it should protect from standard/simple hacking techniques and various service abuse. Please let me know if something stops working.

[Like Ra]

another thing I should've added years ago. Theoretically it should protect from standard/simple hacking techniques and various service abuse.

Checked the logs... I definitely should have done it before 😂

[Lancer]

I'm currently experimenting with the Apache security module (application firewall) - another thing I should've added years ago. Theoretically it should protect from standard/simple hacking techniques and various service abuse. Please let me know if something stops working.

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[Like Ra]

Guys, let me know if any of your actions get denied. I've just disabled two security filters, which blocked post quoting. Yeah, everything "better" comes with a price tag...

[Like Ra]

I'm currently experimenting with the Apache security module (application firewall)

Fighting false positives is ... f...fun ... CRS is not quite compatible with WordPress.

[Like Ra]

Cumulative effect of the tweaked plugin and the application firewall:

   

Very satisfying I must say 😎

[Like Ra]

If someone got "Forbidden - you are not allowed to access this resource" while uploading a file to the forum - this should be fixed now. It was a false positive for the "MULTIPART_UNMATCHED_BOUNDARY - Multipart parser detected a possible unmatched boundary" security rule.

[Like Ra]

The forum is barely responding today - no ideas why yet. Checking everywhere.

[Like Ra]

For some reason after some time PHP stops replying to Apache...