2) Performance Detractors
Often plugins include functionality that may cause high server loads at the time that the site is loaded. A high server load can prevent or slow your site from being loaded quickly, and can even cause site and server downtime. This can happen by:
- Loading and reviewing large amounts of your code with every load.
- Over frequent database access.
- Poor database optimization resulting in database stability and speed issues.
In order to ensure that your site is served quickly and reliably, we must restrict the use of inefficient plugins.
3) Security Vulnerabilities
We take the security of your website very seriously. It is important to note that software on your website can potentially be accessed by malicious third-parties.
Both SiteLock and CodeGuard are included with Optimized WordPress, allowing you to scan your site for malware and restore when damage has been found. We also actively track many plugins with known vulnerabilities and prevent their installation to help provide you with the most secure possible hosting experience.
We do our best to actively maintain a list of plugins with known vulnerabilities and blacklist them accordingly to help you maintain a healthy and secure website. At any given time we have the right to add additional plugins to our blacklist. Any plugins that we feel will jeopardize your hosting experience as well as other clients due to hack and compromised attempts will be blacklisted and not permitted within our Wordpress hosting environment.
4) Email, Mailing Plugins (Spam)
In order to ensure the best experience for you, we blacklist plugins that are known to send SPAM. Many plugins are able to send mail via a
script, which can result in plugins that abuse this privilege.
Plugins that send spam to users can be detrimental to your domain, as it may become blacklisted, or worse. It is important that sending
email adhere to current SPAM laws. At SniperHost we do offer a complete autoresponder mailing platform.
Here is a complete list of plugins that are not allowed to be used within our WordPress hosting environment:
adminer
automatic-wordpress-backup
broken-link-checker
cache-images
counterize
dbc-backup
dynamic-related-posts
ezpz-one-click-backup
file-commander
firestats
fuzzy-seo-booster
google-xml-sitemaps-with-multisite-support
gosquared-livestats
hc-custom-wp-admin-url
jr-referrer
newstatpress
no-revisions
portable-phpmyadmin
pressbackup
repress
seo-alrp
similar-posts
simple-backup
simple-stats
simple-wordpress-backup
snapshot-backup
statpress
statpress-reloaded
statpress-visitors
stats
superslider
toolspack
total-archive-by-fotan
total-backup
track-that-stat
tweet-blender
visitor-stats-widget
vm-backups
vsf-simple-stats
wassup
wordpress-backup
wordpress-gzip-compression
wp-cache
wp-complete-backup
wp-database-optimizer
wpdbspringclean
wpengine-migrate
wp-engine-snapshot
wpengine-snapshot
wp-s3-backups
wp-time-machine
yet-another-featured-posts-plugin