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Still having a hard time getting in here sometimes. 50/50 chance. Portal button works better than recent posts button which almost never works. When it does it takes so long to load the page it sometimes times out...
Don, just lemme know who I gotta sic cousin Vito on...
Capisce?
Fugghedaboudit...
AJR
I would love that.
I've finally broken down and am in the middle of working with a security provider. They are scanning the site atm. I hope this helps to improve the uptime.
Can someone explain to me what the goal of a DDoS attack on a site like this is?
Is it just general jerkiness? Or, is there an actual point?
General jerkiness. And to show they can do it.
Actually, it isn't a DDoS attack, it is a distributed brute force attack. Someone is trying to brute force crack my Word Press password. While I removed the login file, still having essentially several hundred pings per second to the site eventually slows it down long enough to bring it down.
In the past it was easy for me to just block a particular IP address or two or a country, but with VPNs and the shear number of zombie computers available, the hackers can bring several thousand different IPs to bear, more than I can keep track of.
A few years ago, I had an attack from Romania. I just blocked the entire country, but down the attacks are coming from all over the world.
And the mods will probably delete this since it is off topic.
I'm not able to write any comments on front page articles. Is this to help stop the attacks?
The error I get is below if it helps.
Access Denied - Sucuri Website Firewall If you are the site owner (or you manage this site), please whitelist your IP or if you think this block is an error please open a support ticket and make sure to include the block details (displayed in the box below), so we can assist you in troubleshooting the issue.
Block details: Your IP: 92.11.110.33 URL: http://www.simplyscripts.com/wp-comments-post.php Your Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.138 Safari/537.36 Block ID: CMB055 Block reason: Comments and xmlrpc are being blocked on this site. Time: 2020-05-21 07:00:36 Server ID: 13017
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I'm not able to write any comments on front page articles. Is this to help stop the attacks?
The error I get is below if it helps.
Access Denied - Sucuri Website Firewall If you are the site owner (or you manage this site), please whitelist your IP or if you think this block is an error please open a support ticket and make sure to include the block details (displayed in the box below), so we can assist you in troubleshooting the issue.
Block details: Your IP: 92.11.110.33 URL: http://www.simplyscripts.com/wp-comments-post.php Your Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.138 Safari/537.36 Block ID: CMB055 Block reason: Comments and xmlrpc are being blocked on this site. Time: 2020-05-21 07:00:36 Server ID: 13017
Mark,
Thanks for pointing this out. Let me take a look. I'm still figuring out the security software.
Don
Zack,
Next time you get an add, can you grab a screenshot?
Don - I just sent you a screenshot of the ad that popped up for me. From my phone, it occurs when going from homepage to the discussion board. It's never happened from a desktop or laptop.
Don - I just sent you a screenshot of the ad that popped up for me. From my phone, it occurs when going from homepage to the discussion board. It's never happened from a desktop or laptop.
Henceforth, All Users Must Use a Laptop!
j/k. Thanks for the info. I'll go see why Google is screwing me (probably my error).