Securi vs. WordFence

[Toby Cryns]

Have any of you tried Securi and/or WordFence?  I am interested to learn of your experiences, good and bad, with both services.  Or perhaps you have used a different service - I'd love to hear about that, too!

http://sucuri.net/  vs.  http://www.wordfence.com

Thanks!
Toby

[Shea Laughlin]

I've use Sucuri for ad-hoc scans but I have never signed up for the paid service.  I do find it helpful and this could be a potential service offering if you're hosting/maintaining WP sites for clients.

[Nick Ciske]

I use the paid Sucuri on about 15 blogs and just upgraded to a 30 pack. Never had hacking issues before (on sites I host), but wanted to stay ahead of the curve.

Once thing I like about Sucuri is it includes them 'unhacking' your site -- something I could do, but not for what I pay them ... so I have peace of mind that I can call in an expert to fix a site instead of losing a day/morning doing it myself.

Both are essentially software firewalls and malware scanners, with Sucuri adding the external scanning component to look for SEO type spam and malware (not sure if WordFence does that or not). It also checks WHOIS records for changes so you can see if someone is trying to hack your domain at the registrar level.

They look like they'd work well together -- I've heard that WordFence does great at blocking worthless traffic that just wastes resources (e.g. on a VPS or resource limited cloud hosting plan). Haven’t gotten around to installing it yet.

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Nick Ciske

http://thoughtrefinery.com/

@nciske

On Monday, July 9, 2012 9:51:39 AM UTC-5, Toby Cryns wrote:

[Toby C]

Thanks for sharing your experiences, Nick!

Toby

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[Toby Cryns]

Thanks for sharing your experience, Tim!

Toby

On Wednesday, July 11, 2012 9:11:18 AM UTC-5, Tim Cimbura wrote:

I'm also using Sucuri on several sites. I purchased it after one site was recently was infected with Malware. They removed the malware immediately after I sent a support note and they got things back up and running. Just make sure you have good backups in case you would need to full restore.

Thanks,

Tim

[Nick Ciske]

I've now installed WordFence on a few sites and it and Sucuri are quite complimentary. While they do duplicate some functionality, WordFence appears to be more feature rich (though most of the extra features are available in free plugins) while Sucuri wins out on the human element.

I think I'll run both and keep Securi as my paid option (I'm stuck with them for a year anyways, and like the peace of mind of having a security expert on call).

WordFence is a great login auditing/blocking tool, and I love that it can block bad crawlers with one click (which can quickly spike resources on a VPS as they generally don't rate limit requests) and makes finding and blocking bad bots/heavy resource consumers easy as well.

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Nick Ciske

http://thoughtrefinery.com/

@nciske