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Their advanced DDoS protection can be used to mitigate DDoS attacks of all shapes and sizes, including those targeting UDP and ICMP protocols, as well as SYN/ACK, DNS amplification, and Layer 7 attacks. Other benefits include placing you behind a proxy server, which helps hide your source IP address, although it is not bulletproof. Be sure to check out our case study on how to stop a DDoS attack. We had a client with a small e-commerce site running Easy Digital gambling data malaysia Downloads that received over 5 million requests to a single page over a 7-day period . Normally, the site only generated 30-40MB per day of bandwidth and a couple hundred visitors per day. But out of the blue, the site instantly jumped to 15-19GB of data transfer per day! That’s a 4650% increase . And Google Analytics didn’t show any additional traffic. So that’s not good.

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The customer installed Sucuri Web Application Firewall on their site and the site's throughput and requests dropped instantly (as shown below) and there hasn't been a single issue since. So it's definitely a good investment and time saver if you're experiencing similar issues.


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As you can see, there are many ways to strengthen WordPress security. Using strong passwords, updating your core and plugins, choosing a secure managed WordPress hosting are just a few that will help keep your WordPress site safe. For many of you, your WordPress site is both your business and your income, so it’s important to take the time to implement some of the above security practices sooner rather than later.

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