I do recommend not a plugin but a setting for any of the security plugins or do it manually.
To block the hole range of OVH’s IPv4. Simply because many of the bruteforceattacks and similar attacks comes from OVH’s cheap range of VPS or dedis…
Find the IP-range here https://kit1.dk/2019/06/21/block-ovh-ip4-range/
Funnily enough, the amount of bruteforce we see from OVH is minimal.
most I see is HiNet (Chunghwa)
I do recommend the hole package from WPMUDEV. Great plugins and specially the support for all sort of wordpress issues.
+1 yup my Centmin Mod wordpress auto installer installs autoptimize by default with optional end user selectable Autoptimize Gzip companion plugin of mine which automatically precompresses Autoptimize’d css/js via gzip and brotli compression if you have php brotli extension https://community.centminmod.com/threads/my-first-wordpress-autoptimize-gzip-companion-plugin.15314/ 
Mad performance combined with Centmin Mod Nginx which by default enables gzip_static and brotli_static (if brotli nginx module is enabled) so you can allow Nginx to serve pre-compressed gzip or brotli css/js optimised files - which can be up to 20-40x times faster
WebP Express plugin looks good too - early development so going through alot of versions still but looking to optionally add it as a selectable choice for my Centmin Mod wordpress autoinstaller https://community.centminmod.com/threads/installing-webp-express-wordpress-plugin-on-centmin-mod-nginx.17469/
I use this one
@anon40039896 @Ympker If you want some true low end, high performance hosting… just combine WP2Static with Netlify. Have your site live on a CDN for free, as long as you aren’t pushing crazy traffic (bandwidth soft cap for free plan is like 100GB/mo).
The only advantage Divi has is it’s so slow that I can charge people to remove it and make their website faster.
In general I try and use as little as possible in terms of plugins - so many “developers” will use a plugin (that hasn’t been updated in 3 years) to do something they could easily do themselves. The result being the site gets hacked.
There are some good, well maintained plugins though.
Advanced custom fields pro, contact form 7, etc, are all useful.
It seems we disagree then. I guess everyone needs to decide for themselves the value they get from Divi
From a “speed of development” point of view, I can understand why people use it.
But it does add a lot of overhead to a site which even caching doesn’t resolve.
I end up inheriting a lot of existing sites, so from an ongoing maintenance/development point of view it does have it’s downsides.
A Website created with Divi and transferred to Static Site via WP2Static loads in 400-500ms. I don’t need my sites to load any faster, really.
I’m basing a lot of this on the fact that disabling the Divi theme/builder drastically speeds sites up - but even converted to static content, there’s a lot of JS doing things which affect the final load time.
I had a site that had an 8 second load time, dropped to 1-1.5 second with Divi disabled - I ended up retheming the site.
I know everyone has their own way of doing things, and certainly not wanting to slate other devs or create an argument, but in my experience stuff like Divi themes/builders have been used to speed up initial dev time, not on going maintenance time.
On the other side of things - I don’t know how much people have done with the new Gutenberg editor - but IMO it negates the need for page builders completely. Everyone can be done with custom blocks natively, and most importantly, it’s quicker straight away.
And I’m saying that as someone who works with wordpress but isn’t a big fan of it lol.
Agree. Everyone needs to ask themselves whether they are satisfied with the results. Personally, I have been so far. That’s just me though. I can see where you are coming from and Gutenberg is certainly a new possiblity although I don’t like it that much… yet… Time will show
Not a “fan” either: Especially if a client installs a bunch of random plugins I’ve never heard of (or even nulled ones) and then wonders why the site stopped working or is super slow…
@Mr_Tom To that end I also love https://pinegrow.com/ when creating websites. A bit like Webflow and convert HTML themes to WP if needed.
I’ve only done basics with it to be honest - but it gives the user a view of how the page will look while they publish content (you can easily style it to mimic front end), by just adding native or custom blocks.
If there’s a specific “layout” or “pattern/style” used regularly in a design, make it a block. Then just build the pages.
Not heard of pinegrow - it looks like a cross between Dreamweaver and Adobe XD, which can then make a wordpress theme?
Pinegrow is pretty cool.
Features I love:
Clean code and swift HTML visual editor.
Edit Code in Sublime Text and all your edits are displayed live in Pinegrow. You can jump back and forth between Sublime Text and Pinegrow (e.g. if you have two screens have both open and sync in real time).
Import the design/structure of (almost) ANY website. Just enter the URL and it will be imported and you can start hacking (=coding/changing) into it.
Ability to convert to WP although usally I’ll just use https://htmltowordpress.io/
What about Elementor Pro?
I use elementor pro and found it a lot quicker and more comprehensive than divi
I always fancied trying that one but never used it. I only had experience with Divi from inheriting sites to maintain.
Most of these “page builders” I find can be replaced (with exceptions) using the Gutenberg editor and custom blocks.