Title: Plugin Causing Site Slowness/Connection Issues
Last modified: November 20, 2023

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# Plugin Causing Site Slowness/Connection Issues

 *  Resolved [Juwaan Carter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geekvibesnation/)
 * (@geekvibesnation)
 * [2 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-causing-site-slowness-connection-issues/)
 * plugin seems to be really slowing the site down lately. Host provider said MySQL
   has been very busy. Please see results below. This has caused the site to lose
   connection several times and clearing cache and checking internet connection 
   has not helped. Any solution to lower the load of the plugin on our host server?
 * +——–+——————+———–+——————+———+——+———-+——————————————————————————–+
 * | Id     | User             | Host      | db               | Command | Time |
   State    | Info                                                              
   |
 * +——–+——————+———–+——————+———+——+———-+——————————————————————————–+
 * | 934511 | geekvibe_newsite | localhost | geekvibe_newsite | Query   | 39   |
   updating | DELETE FROM wp_wf301_404_logs WHERE created < DATE_SUB(NOW(), INTERVAL
   30 DAY) |
 * | 934549 | geekvibe_newsite | localhost | geekvibe_newsite | Query   | 27   |
   updating | DELETE FROM wp_wf301_404_logs WHERE created < DATE_SUB(NOW(), INTERVAL
   30 DAY) |
 * | 934573 | geekvibe_newsite | localhost | geekvibe_newsite | Query   | 22   |
   updating | DELETE FROM wp_wf301_404_logs WHERE created < DATE_SUB(NOW(), INTERVAL
   30 DAY) |
 * | 934585 | geekvibe_newsite | localhost | geekvibe_newsite | Query   | 19   |
   updating | DELETE FROM wp_wf301_404_logs WHERE created < DATE_SUB(NOW(), INTERVAL
   30 DAY) |
 * | 934607 | geekvibe_newsite | localhost | geekvibe_newsite | Query   | 9    |
   updating | DELETE FROM wp_wf301_404_logs WHERE created < DATE_SUB(NOW(), INTERVAL
   30 DAY) |
 * | 934621 | geekvibe_newsite | localhost | geekvibe_newsite | Query   | 6    |
   updating | DELETE FROM wp_wf301_404_logs WHERE created < DATE_SUB(NOW(), INTERVAL
   30 DAY) |
 * | 934629 | geekvibe_newsite | localhost | geekvibe_newsite | Query   | 4    |
   updating | DELETE FROM wp_wf301_404_logs WHERE created < DATE_SUB(NOW(), INTERVAL
   30 DAY) |

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 *  Plugin Author [Paul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paultgoodchild/)
 * (@paultgoodchild)
 * [2 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-causing-site-slowness-connection-issues/#post-17217679)
 * Hi,
 * Sorry to hear about the trouble with that… unfortunately we can’t help you with
   this issue. We run a very tight ship and optimise wherever we can, though some
   things do use resources, such as scans when they’re running.
 * These MySQL logs are for Wordfence, not Shield Security – you’ll want to take
   this up with them and why it’s affecting your server resources so much.
 * Thanks,
   Paul.
 *  Thread Starter [Juwaan Carter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geekvibesnation/)
 * (@geekvibesnation)
 * [2 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-causing-site-slowness-connection-issues/#post-17218223)
 * Our host provider said the same thing but we don’t use Wordfence. We only use
   Shield Security.
 *  Plugin Author [Paul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paultgoodchild/)
 * (@paultgoodchild)
 * [2 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-causing-site-slowness-connection-issues/#post-17219163)
 * Can I ask why you think Shield is responsible for these queries? Shield doesn’t
   have anything to do with WF.

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 * Last reply from: [Paul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paultgoodchild/)
 * Last activity: [2 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-causing-site-slowness-connection-issues/#post-17219163)
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