[Solved] Web access not working (VPS).

[Krydos]

Is this fjq_rank_ stuff a plugin you uninstalled?

[nazsky786]

8 hours ago, Krydos said:

Is this fjq_rank_ stuff a plugin you uninstalled?

I've uninstalled a few plugins trying to make site faster. But most of the complaints from customer is loading speed they think the site has crashed and then the leave. I get about 15 draft orders. 

I have wp rocket to try increase the speed and using webp images. 

Rank is the seo plugin. That does the marketing on Google and other platforms.

[Krydos]

Yeah, the reason your load is 7 now instead of 0.50 like it was a few days ago is because all of the constant database errors. You really need to get that fixed.

[nazsky786]

11 hours ago, Krydos said:

Yeah, the reason your load is 7 now instead of 0.50 like it was a few days ago is because all of the constant database errors. You really need to get that fixed.

What I will do is remove all the plugins that cant be removed, and do a database clean, and then slowly reinstall the plugins that are 100% needed, after that hopefully any issues should have cleared, if they come back i know specifically what plugin I installed that has caused the issue.

Everything is pointing at Rank Math plugin but its coming up fine, which I don't understand, it likes to the database and says everything is all good.

That's the plan.

 

[nazsky786]

20 hours ago, Krydos said:

Yeah, the reason your load is 7 now instead of 0.50 like it was a few days ago is because all of the constant database errors. You really need to get that fixed.

Ok, so the only error im seeing now is 

[Fri Sep 20 18:18:00.635819 2024] [access_compat:error] [pid 940571:tid 940611] [client 2607:6b80:6a:2000::885e:0] AH01797: client denied by server configuration: /home/gzmo/web/gzmoperformance.co.uk/public_html/xmlrpc.php

Something to do with a deny in the apache server?

[Krydos]

That xmlrpc.php file is a common vulnerability that hackers use to compromise your site. Most likely if some random IP is being blocked it is a good thing because they can't hack your site with that particular vulnerability if they are blocked. Even sites that don't use Wordpress get constant hacker bots looking for xmlrpc.php files.

I ran another report on your site and it's looking pretty good https://gtmetrix.com/reports/gzmoperformance.co.uk/2Rc50v4y/

[nazsky786]

On 9/21/2024 at 3:32 AM, Krydos said:

That xmlrpc.php file is a common vulnerability that hackers use to compromise your site. Most likely if some random IP is being blocked it is a good thing because they can't hack your site with that particular vulnerability if they are blocked. Even sites that don't use Wordpress get constant hacker bots looking for xmlrpc.php files.

I ran another report on your site and it's looking pretty good https://gtmetrix.com/reports/gzmoperformance.co.uk/2Rc50v4y/

So don't need to mess with that problem. 

Also I'm getting emails about backup has not been possible due to not having double the required memory?

Also is there an ability to do staging, where I can make changes and then if all good move to the main server? 

[Krydos]

2 hours ago, nazsky786 said:

Also I'm getting emails about backup has not been possible due to not having double the required memory?

Making backups is pretty easy. Just tar zcvf your files, and mysqldump your database occasionally. You certainly don't need 10 GB of memory to do that. I would recommend automating the backups with cron, and then scp the files off somewhere secure. You can leave the backups on your server, but it's best practice to keep backups in several different locations to be safe.

2 hours ago, nazsky786 said:

Also is there an ability to do staging, where I can make changes and then if all good move to the main server?

What I do is make a test domain like dev.yourdomain.com and password protect it so only you can access it. Then make the changes there where people can't see it, and then when it looks good copy the changes over to your main domain.

[nazsky786]

2 hours ago, Krydos said:

Making backups is pretty easy. Just tar zcvf your files, and mysqldump your database occasionally. You certainly don't need 10 GB of memory to do that. I would recommend automating the backups with cron, and then scp the files off somewhere secure. You can leave the backups on your server, but it's best practice to keep backups in several different locations to be safe.

What I do is make a test domain like dev.yourdomain.com and password protect it so only you can access it. Then make the changes there where people can't see it, and then when it looks good copy the changes over to your main domain.

Would the VPS be able to support running the main site and the stage site?

Then I just make a clone and do the modifications.  It's mainly just theme updates, I know there are few problems once an update is done that causing site to no longer function.

[Krydos]

15 hours ago, nazsky786 said:

Would the VPS be able to support running the main site and the stage site?

We could always upgrade your VPS some more if it doesn't support running two copies of your site, but like I said as long as you password protect your development site it shouldn't cause too much load. A Wordpress site with zero visitors causes zero load. It's not like there is any constantly running processes that take up memory.