Mikkel: You'd use one or the other, not both. When do you have too many plugins? Good question. I've seen a lot of argument about that. The net seems to be to use the minimum necessary to make your site work.
29 hours later, I got this response to my original ticket:
We we're [sic] alerted to a vulnerability in the virtualisation software resulting in us having to bring the nodes off-line resolve the issue and increase security. Your servers from the hostnode (14xntx) is working fine. If you have network issues further more, please try booting your VM from solus VM and then network issue will be fixed. We apologise for the inconvenience this has caused.
That's good to know, but they could have told me that 28 hours earlier. Too little, too late.
Mikkel: You'd use one or the other, not both. When do you have too many plugins? Good question. I've seen a lot of argument about that. The net seems to be to use the minimum necessary to make your site work.
Thanks for a great article on W3 Total Cache and WP Super Cache - do I understand that I would be making use of both plugins on the same website?
Also can you tell me, will more plugins begin to slow down a site or is it vastly dependent on what plugins we are talking about?
Thanks for your response to this.
Yours truly
Mikkel
Just a note to say that the more recent versions installed from the Google repositories work happily with Fedora, however it's configured.
29 hours later, I got this response to my original ticket:
We we're [sic] alerted to a vulnerability in the virtualisation software resulting in us having to bring the nodes off-line resolve the issue and increase security. Your servers from the hostnode (14xntx) is working fine. If you have network issues further more, please try booting your VM from solus VM and then network issue will be fixed. We apologise for the inconvenience this has caused.
That's good to know, but they could have told me that 28 hours earlier. Too little, too late.
Administrative logins to this site are now subject to two factor authentication as well. "There's a module for that" at http://drupal.org/project/ga_login. It appears that there's also one for Wordpress at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-authenticator/. I think I'll make that a project for later this week.