Hi a question the DDOS protection rule should it be inserted on the entire website (domain) or only on the domain / wp-admin or wp-login?
Thank you!
My domain is:
fritex
July 27, 2022, 12:03pm
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Greetings,
How about starting with the below:
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Since you’re using WordPress, I’d like to share two of my posts containing multiple things related to your question.
Combining them into few Firewall Rules, you can get what you need for the best possible security & protection of your WordPress instance
That is a good question out there.
I would say it cannot be stated as a general rule of thumb, as far as some WordPress websites do not have to use like POST or PUT (WP REST API, wp-json, plugins etc.), while other have to - just an example.
You could try to block TRACE & TRACK for example.
Or, if you could for example, limit HEAD, GET and POST for some specific IP or some similar scenario, where you protect your Website from bad bots, possible attacks, etc. in terms of security measurements. …
Few like 1-10, or 100-500 ?
Are these maybe the crawlers or bots? Did you analyze your web traffic?
Are the naked domain and www DNS records proxied? ( cloud)
Bypassing, does this mean like comming directly to your server IP address?
Make sure to protect your admin / login page, if you have one.
Well, depending on the attack type, if user-agents, crawlers, etc., there are few I would recommend to add to your Firewall Rules, like the posted here:
If you need to block requests…
koky251:
wp-admin or wp-login
We can use Cloudflare Access / Zero Trust (Teams):
https://www.tuonetti.fi/en/cloudflare-access-guide/
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