‘Remote’ scanning

  • Amibe Websites

    (@amibe)


    9 years, 2 months ago

    A theoretical idea/suggestion for running scans on a VPS. Possibly a future premium option?

    Thinking ‘out loud’, what I’d like to be able to do is take the CPU and memory usage/impact of scans away from the main web server (a multi-site environment) by running scans on a separate server instance, with it’s own CPU and memory allocation, that has access to the main website files and database. Something like handling backups outside of WordPress.

    I’ve just watched a scan’s impact on the VPS I’m running and CPU usage spiked at 66% from around 1-2% average over about 15 minutes.

    One way, if possible, could be a CRON and CLI type option on the separate instance with database and file storage configuration/parameters pointing to the main server.

    Another way (again, if possible) could be to replicate the entire site, both database and files, to the other instance and run the scans on the website replica.

    Is any of this feasible? Other options?

    Any ideas or suggestions greatly appreciated.

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  • Plugin Support wfphil

    (@wfphil)

    9 years, 2 months ago

    Hello,

    If you go to our contact page below and send an email to the feedback email address then we can look at your suggestions in more detail:

    Send Feedback to Wordfence

    In the meantime on the “Options” page you can enable the option “Use low resource scanning (reduces server load by lengthening the scan duration)”.

    Also viewing the “Scan” page consumes more resources so you can change the setting “Update interval in seconds (2 is default)”. Setting it to something like 10 or 15 seconds, will dramatically reduce the amount of processing power that viewing the “Scan” page will consume.

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