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@Tech Guy SA I'm busy with the clean up now. Sorry for the heart attack! I've spoken to 3 other people on domains who have had theirs compromised in the same way. I have 2FA on everything BTW (and wordfence).
I've also fired off an email to domains.
May i ask is it wordpress?
were they admin Roles?
Is Woo really that heavy or is it just redundancy? That should handle a (by South African standards) pretty darn large store even on Magento.
Yes and no
its not really it can handle a lot its the sql database that becomes the issue. Now ive got it to run on 4GB ram and 8 cores its mostly 8 cores since i have 2 LS workers so they have 2 cores to do the dirty work.
It hardly touches passed 2gb ram its just on the what if it happens. the rest is for redis (1.5GB) and mariaDB which if i don't clean slows down etc. but im talking about months no clean up where last year i had years no clean up i learned a lot from owning a VPS
but im using their managed cp cause i cant stand this lines of code in linux anymore my main reason for that server as well is i use about 280gb this includes emails etc so i need the HDD space their word-press packages too small for me. only last few months converting png to webp files and uploading those. shrinks a lot. my database is a few million (just about 8 million rows) stuff grows.
i must still clear my actions that are failed and completed so prob shed something like 2 mil off.
i could run on less BUT with these issues its best to have the horsepower to be able to do something about it. atm its cruising at 20% usage with local traffic max (Currently typing its 2.5% CPU and 859mb used out of 4gb) now at the back end its downloading and converting xml json to csv and updating stocks
i have 50 000 + SKUs on the system (not all are published and filters etc for products. (58 896) maybe about 6-7k of these are end of life) i dump all my suppliers skus and go through them used to put them in batches of 100 plus in csv template i made
now if you got less than 10k SKUs you dont have to have so much memory to be honest. but woo works fine just less you have the less you need vise versa.
I think wootware uses megento i only know woocommerce there is a lot of room with woocommerce. just dont over saturate with plugins that are not needed.
If it wasnt for the bots legit or not id prob run smaller server.
Google bot is okay
Bring bot you must set him to low cause honestly also gets rapy with crawling.
i dont use facebook pixel (i refuse). but she will still crawl which is fine but got to filter and restrict what they filter.
Yeost Sitemaps works wonders and allows thousands not just a few of them.
i manually feed them to bing and google console now and then just incase.
also about store size filters help BUT bots use it against you. but thats what reddis or memcache is for.
Cache is king and configuring them can get annoying especially when it needs to get technical.
**edits... my spelling OMG sorry.
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