Title: Using mysql while under attack
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Using mysql while under attack

 *  [kapkan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kapkan/)
 * (@kapkan)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-mysql-while-under-attack/)
 * I have 9 wordpress and 1 vbulletin forum. I am using a shared hosting package
   which has a concurrent user limit (10). (Fatcow)
 * Is Wordfence spending mysql queries to prevent brute force / vulnerability scanning/
   harmful fast crawlers ?
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 * Last reply from: [kapkan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kapkan/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-mysql-while-under-attack/)
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