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Add Blacklist section in your security tab

The current server management console, has a n area where we can whitelist our IP address to avoid lockout problems. But could we also get for our servers a blacklist option?

There are multiple WordPress sites I manage. And you have no idea how many hacking attempts I get daily. Being able to block the ip addresses from where these attempts are coming from...could really help us secure our WP sites even more.

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Mr. Avelardo Lopez / www.AvelardoLopez.com shared this idea  ·   ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

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  • Oran commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    add a feature that allows block at Nginx level too! because blocking from htaccess is not helping for attacking (IP requests are still raising)

  • Richard commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I'd like the ability within the security tab of the server to block blacklisted IP's automatically from a list of know sources, that helps non-wordpress sites/applications as well as Wordpress sites. Most of the solutions provided seem to be aimed at Wordpress.

    This would mean that all websites and web applications would have the same protection against malicious IP addresses, spamming websites and using up bandwidth, as Wordpress without having to build or find solutions that don't work as well or may not work on the Cloudways platform ( or are too time consuming to be practical, such as blocking IP's using .htaccess).

  • Scamando commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes, +1 - If you have an attack, it would be nice to be able to add ip range to stop.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is really necessary.

    If anyone has an idea of how to overcome the IP blacklist problem without having to copy

    order allow,deny
    deny from
    allow from all

    block for each application in the .htaccess file will be great.
    Cloudways had an announcement that IP blacklisting has been released but I can't find it in the management console.

  • Rudy commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It's great that Bot Protection blocks traffic that meets Cloudways' predefined criteria automatically, but there is other "bad" traffic that continues to get through. It would be helpful to be able to manually block specific traffic that is malicious to our apps. Similar to the "whitelist" function already in place, it would be great to have a second option to blacklist them.

  • R Smith commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I UPVOTE this idea!
    This would be a very good feature to have in the Cloudways panel.

  • Touraj commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It’s been over 5 years since Avelardo made this very important suggestion, but not one word from Cloudways.

    Hello Cloudways team, you got many thing right but why not this one?

    As others said, pleeeeease give us the ability to block and unblock offending IPs.

  • Scot commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    ... ie block access to Russian IP addresses.

    even better if we could choose countries to block rather than having to input entire IP ranges

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