What Do You Get from Upgrading
- CellPhone sign-in
- Advanced comment spam filter
- Check if site is spamvertised
- Check if site IP is generating spam
- Remote scans
- Country blocking
- Frequent scans
- Premium support
Now while these sound quite impressive most people need to ask themselves whether or not they are actually going to use these features. If you are just a simple blog owner why would you be worried about remote scanning your website? What would you do if your website was spamvertised? This can provide some useful information but what would you do in the event of any of these things coming true?
CellPhone Sign-in
The CellPhone Sign-In feature is something that might be useful for your users or it can just be an annoyance while it comes across as being handy and adding an extra layer of security there are only a handful of users that would use this feature and there is no guarantee they would use it on your website.
Advanced Comment Spam Filter
You can get a free list of 17k stop words on GitHub that would place a bigger dent than this plugins spam filter.
Check If Site Is Spamvertised
This feature simply means that WordFence will check to see if your website is being blacklisted or is known for distributing spam.
Check If Site IP Is Generating Spam
This is very similar to the Spamvertised tool and it basically will check to see if your website IP is known for distributing spam mail or any form of spam in general. There is not much you can do in this case other than request your host to change your IP.
Remote Scans
Simply if you don't know what it is you are not going to use it... At all.
Country Blocking
Country blocking allows you to block a range of IP addresses from a particular country. Keep in mind that if someone is using a Proxy or VPN and they attempt to
Frequent Scans
Premium Support
The support at WordFence is actually really nice the staff is knowledgeable and they are very helpful. However, if you are only wanting support most of it can be done on your own by watching a video guide on YouTube.
So do you really need WordFence premium? If you are on a basic shared hosting plan then chances are is you are going to be wasting your resources and you will not use these features at all. However, the cell phone sign-in is a nice feature that adds a form of 2-factor authentication which is something we should all be using.
Do you use WordFence premium? Was it worth the upgrade?
0 comments:
Post a Comment