Have a prayer request for my Mother in Law in North Carolina. She went in the hospital last night with congestive heart failure. 23 hour drive if we do it or 1700 in air tick
Take care of your family!
Drive safetly (if you take the car)
You are in our thoughts ( or how you say it in english)
//Max
Hi Rodney, Do whatever you need to do to get to her. Praying for safe travels for you and a quick recovery for your mother in law
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Have a prayer request for my Mother in Law in North Carolina. She went in the hospital last night with congestive heart failure. 23 hour drive if we do it or 1700 in air tick
Take care of your family!
Drive safetly (if you take the car)
You are in our thoughts ( or how you say it in english)
//Max
Hi Rodney, Do whatever you need to do to get to her. Praying for safe travels for you and a quick recovery for your mother in law
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Is this true?
I am trying to find a plug in that can create an app for the phone, this is wiziapp if this isnt approved with WA is there one we can use?
Who do I contact? I am really just looking for a plug in to create a phone app. Does anyone know one that does work?
If the service is trusted, the plugin is coded properly, then we can look into allowing an outgoing connection. However a LOT of plugins are problematic and they unnecessarily connect to external servers. This is not only a security issue, but in many cases the plugins will require the external connection to load your site. If the external server is not available, your site doesn't load.
We put these measures in place because a lot of plugins out there are horribly coded, they offer little value, and they make all kinds of unnecessary connections to outside servers.
Obviously we allow many outgoing connections.. Facebook, Google, Pinterest, Twitter, WordPress.. all the trusted services and 100's more. We simply block untrusted plugins until we trust them.
I'll make a note to look into Shareaholic and Backupwp.
Thanks,
Carson
Carson, it might be a nice idea to start a list of plugins that are allowed on the WA servers then members could just check the list before adding them to their sites. Could save everyone a lot of hassle. Maybe there is already a list somewhere?
Also a button under dashboard that says "latest updates to WA" or "important wa news" would be a great way for all members to have instant access to the latest updates,rules. and changes as they happen. Just a thought. :)
Quoting from support here:
We've had a lot of issues across servers with wordpress plugins that try to connect to remote servers. Essentially, what happens is that a remote service may go offline (ie. a service that verifies someone paid for a plugin), and then their website goes down. Or worse, requests to their site hang and create a connection backlog on the web server, causing the entire server to go down. In addition, people who have installed insecure plugins on their sites get their site hacked into, and the intruder injects code that makes connections to remote servers (again this can bring the entire server down if the remote connections hang). For these reason, we are implementing a policy to block all outgoing connections, except for those that have been preapproved. For dropbox and wordpress we are comfortable with approving, because they run very reliable services. We are working to have exceptions to all wordpress servers in our firewall. We will add dropbox. For plugins that require an activation, we need to be reassured that this is a one-time activation and that this activation code is not checked every time the wordpress site is loaded. Since we host so many plugins, if we allow them to connect remotely, there is a high chance that one of those plugins will have a service outage at any given time, and this potentially means outages for people's sites. We cannot have our own hosting service dependent on the performance of 3rd party services unless we have a high confidence in the availability of those 3rd party services.
The reason this is affecting some sites and not others is because this measure has not been rolled out to all servers yet. We are testing on only a couple servers first and refining our firewall measures before rolling out to all servers.
Aw, Craig, mate, brilliant. Thank you for getting a "definitive" answer, it's much appreciated. Kudos!! Rich.
This quote was from a ticket created over a week ago. So maybe they've changed minds going off response Rodney posted. Or could be that the support person wasn't aware.
I guess Carson or Kyle will need to clear this up.
I'm "guessing" perhaps some Members have been using "tools" that are either pose a security issue or risk getting the servers blacklisted. Also, this "may" explain why BackWPUp isn't working for some Members. I'm hoping that Craig (@welshy) will be along to comment shortly, as I recommend his BackWPUp training almost daily. Rich.
I do not use shareaholic maybe it is blocked here there a few plugins that can overload the servers and are just not allowed maybe it is one of em.
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WA does not allow outgoing connections
Is this true?
I am trying to find a plug in that can create an app for the phone, this is wiziapp if this isnt approved with WA is there one we can use?
Who do I contact? I am really just looking for a plug in to create a phone app. Does anyone know one that does work?
If the service is trusted, the plugin is coded properly, then we can look into allowing an outgoing connection. However a LOT of plugins are problematic and they unnecessarily connect to external servers. This is not only a security issue, but in many cases the plugins will require the external connection to load your site. If the external server is not available, your site doesn't load.
We put these measures in place because a lot of plugins out there are horribly coded, they offer little value, and they make all kinds of unnecessary connections to outside servers.
Obviously we allow many outgoing connections.. Facebook, Google, Pinterest, Twitter, WordPress.. all the trusted services and 100's more. We simply block untrusted plugins until we trust them.
I'll make a note to look into Shareaholic and Backupwp.
Thanks,
Carson
Carson, it might be a nice idea to start a list of plugins that are allowed on the WA servers then members could just check the list before adding them to their sites. Could save everyone a lot of hassle. Maybe there is already a list somewhere?
Also a button under dashboard that says "latest updates to WA" or "important wa news" would be a great way for all members to have instant access to the latest updates,rules. and changes as they happen. Just a thought. :)
Quoting from support here:
We've had a lot of issues across servers with wordpress plugins that try to connect to remote servers. Essentially, what happens is that a remote service may go offline (ie. a service that verifies someone paid for a plugin), and then their website goes down. Or worse, requests to their site hang and create a connection backlog on the web server, causing the entire server to go down. In addition, people who have installed insecure plugins on their sites get their site hacked into, and the intruder injects code that makes connections to remote servers (again this can bring the entire server down if the remote connections hang). For these reason, we are implementing a policy to block all outgoing connections, except for those that have been preapproved. For dropbox and wordpress we are comfortable with approving, because they run very reliable services. We are working to have exceptions to all wordpress servers in our firewall. We will add dropbox. For plugins that require an activation, we need to be reassured that this is a one-time activation and that this activation code is not checked every time the wordpress site is loaded. Since we host so many plugins, if we allow them to connect remotely, there is a high chance that one of those plugins will have a service outage at any given time, and this potentially means outages for people's sites. We cannot have our own hosting service dependent on the performance of 3rd party services unless we have a high confidence in the availability of those 3rd party services.
The reason this is affecting some sites and not others is because this measure has not been rolled out to all servers yet. We are testing on only a couple servers first and refining our firewall measures before rolling out to all servers.
Aw, Craig, mate, brilliant. Thank you for getting a "definitive" answer, it's much appreciated. Kudos!! Rich.
This quote was from a ticket created over a week ago. So maybe they've changed minds going off response Rodney posted. Or could be that the support person wasn't aware.
I guess Carson or Kyle will need to clear this up.
I'm "guessing" perhaps some Members have been using "tools" that are either pose a security issue or risk getting the servers blacklisted. Also, this "may" explain why BackWPUp isn't working for some Members. I'm hoping that Craig (@welshy) will be along to comment shortly, as I recommend his BackWPUp training almost daily. Rich.
I do not use shareaholic maybe it is blocked here there a few plugins that can overload the servers and are just not allowed maybe it is one of em.
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So sorry to hear your situation. You are in my thoughts. Jackie x