Pingmeter

<p>You might have a great website, shop or blog. so do your competitor. And they get your visitors when your site is down. It is stressful to have your website down and you get aware of it few hours after your visitors. Be the first one to notice.</p>
<p>Pingmeter ping your website constantly to ensure your website is working fine and take note of ping response speed. If your website timeout or go down, Pingmeter will double check it with our other servers across america, europe, russia and even australia, then notify you via SMS, email or even voice call on your phone.</p>
<p>Monitors can be associated with your website, so Pingmeter keep track of number of online visitors on your websites. and If a monitor go down, it notify you in call about number of your online visitors and record how many online visitors were on your website when this downtime happened.</p>
<p>Pingmeter monitor can scan HTTP, HTTPS, SSL Certificate validation, FTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, ICMP, MySQL and custom port pings. Monitors can be parents of a previous monitor, so for example you do not receive multiple alerts if your server go down and bring down HTTP, MySQL and FTP along with it.</p>
<p>Additionally, it can trigger pre-defined rescue actions to automatically recover your website such as modifying your CloudFlare DNS to your backup server or restarting your MySQL, Apache or other services by sending SSH command to your server.</p>
<p>Pingmeter give you a public (or private password protected) status page which you can link on your website so that your visitors can check your service status.</p>
<h4>Read More:</h4>
<p>http://www.pingmeter.com/</p>


Pingmeter Uptime Monitoring

Pingmeter monitors and auto rescues your website during downtimes, so you can relax and focus on what's important. You can configure it to receiv …

Lars Koudal

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<p>Prevent your WordPress site from participating and being a victim of pingback denial of service attacks. <strong>After activation the plugin automatically disables XML-RPC. There’s no need to configure anything.</strong></p>
<p>By disabling the XML-RPC pingback you’ll:<br />
* lower your server CPU usage<br />
* prevent malicious scripts from using your site to run pingback denial of service attacks<br />
* prevent malicious scripts to run denial of service attacks on your site via pingback</p>
<p>From sucuri.net:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Any WordPress site with Pingback enabled (which is on by default) can be used in DDOS attacks against other sites.</p>
</blockquote>
<h4>Learn More</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wptavern.com/how-to-prevent-wordpress-from-participating-in-pingback-denial-of-service-attacks" rel="nofollow ugc">How To Prevent WordPress From Participating In Pingback Denial of Service Attacks</a> – wptavern.com</li>
<li><a href="http://blog.sucuri.net/2014/03/more-than-162000-wordpress-sites-used-for-distributed-denial-of-service-attack.html" rel="nofollow ugc">More Than 162,000 WordPress Sites Used for Distributed Denial of Service Attack</a> – sucuri.net</li>
<li><a href="http://hackguard.com/xmlrpc-php-ping-backs-hackers-denial-service-attacks" rel="nofollow ugc">xmlrpc.php and Pingbacks and Denial of Service Attacks, Oh My!</a> – hackguard.com</li>
</ul>
<h4>Is Your Site Attacking Others?</h4>
<p>Use <a href="http://labs.sucuri.net/?is-my-wordpress-ddosing" rel="nofollow ugc">Sucuri’s WordPress DDOS Scanner</a> to check if your site is DDOS’ing other websites</p>
<h4>Why Not Just Disable XMLRPC Altogether?</h4>
<p>Yes, you can choose to do that, but if you use popular plugins like JetPack (that use XMLRPC) then those plugins will stop working. That is why this small plugin exists.</p>


Remove & Disable XML-RPC Pingback

Great plugin, super easy to install and just sits there doing it's job. Very light as well, so has no effects that I could see, on site speed or memory usage. Can't think of a reason why you wouldn't be using this to be honest. Thanks for developing it!

Just what I needed

Prevent pingback, XML-RPC and denial of service DDOS attacks by disabling the XML-RPC pingback functionality.

Pingmeter Uptime Monitoring vs Remove & Disable XML-RPC Pingback