Preventing an IP address from accessing your website is an effective measure against unwanted visitors, spammy comments, junk email, hacking attempts, andDDOS (denial of service) attacks. This practice helps keep your website safe and running smoothly, making sure real visitors can use it without...
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A DDoS is aimed at disrupting the normal function of aspecificwebsite. That means the attack isn’t random, such as a launched virus that’s aimed at everyone and anyone but no one in particular. A DDoS is planned and coordinated, and the goal is to make an entire website unavailable ...
In 2016, we entered theterabit eraof distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Today, these network-level threats have grown bigger and hit far more frequently, and now have the potential to peak as high as10 to15 Tbps. That’s big enough to take down the internet for an entire cou...
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Your DDoS mitigation service needs to have enough bandwidth in its network to block the large volume of false traffic generated during an attack. For instance, if the network can handle 1 Tbps, it can block that much DDoS traffic—after taking into account the bandwidth used up by normal ope...
A DDoS attack can affect the user experience on your website. If you run a WooCommerce store, then your customers may not be able to place an order or log in to their accounts. You can announce through your social media accounts that your website is having technical difficulties and every...
Limiting specific IP address access Another way to protect your domain name is only to grant account access to specific IP addresses. This clever security measure allows you to allow specific locations, such as your home or work IP addresses, to be marked as safe. If an unauthorized IP addres...
A DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack usesmany remotecomputers in a network to achieve this goal. It’s actually similar to the“Slashdot effect,”where legitimate, unprecedented traffic (often due to a link from a high-traffic website) can cause a site slowdown or crash. However, ...