The Sucuri Firewall functions as a reverse proxy, filtering all incoming traffic through the Sucuri network, parsing good requests from bad requests. To accomplish this, a change is made to your DNS settings. Specifically, one or more A records are...
The message "You are being redirected" means that your page or website has a bot protection enabled. On login/admin pages, such as wp-login.php, this message will always be displayed, unless the IP address of the visitor is whitelisted. In...
If you use vBulletin and you are unable to login to your forum even with the correct credentials and you end up getting: You have used up your failed login quota! Please wait 15 minutes before trying again. The solution is simple. This happens...
Blocking the top three attack countries The majority of website attacks come from specific countries: China, Russia and Turkey. Although we have nothing against those countries, the Sucuri Firewall gives you the option of blocking them from...
Sucuri allows you to block unwanted visitors to your site based on where they come from or based on its referer. HTTP referer (originally a misspelling of referrer) is an HTTP header field that identifies the address of the webpage that is linked to...
A good way to block unwanted visitors to your site is by blocking specific user-agents. By blocking their User Agents, you will stop any traffic that contains the specified name in the user agent field. A “user agent” is a software agent that is...
DreamHost has a unique setup. If you change the domain A record when using their name servers, they automatically stop serving the website. The only way to stop this from happening is to to use the Sucuri name servers instead. Please read our guide...
To help fit your site’s needs, the Sucuri Firewall offers you many security options. All of them can be found under Security in the Sucuri Firewall settings page. Here is what they mean: Admin panel restricted to only Whitelisted IP addresses Most...
Configuring the Sucuri Firewall to work with KeyCDN is very easy. The first step is to activate the Sucuri firewall as you normally would by following this guide. Don’t forget to set the Behind External CDN to Other here: After you have...