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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @Mike Davis
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      @Mike-Davis said in A Small Orange - bandwidth limit exceded:

      I turned on Hotlink Protection and blocked the top IP. We'll see how that goes.

      What did you block with that? I mean blocking the IP, sure, that makes sense if you are sure it is malicious. But there is no hotlinking since you have no images.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller @Mike Davis
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        @Mike-Davis said in A Small Orange - bandwidth limit exceded:

        @JaredBusch said in A Small Orange - bandwidth limit exceded:

        Or you cold ignore everything you were told when asking for help. Great work!

        It's going to take me a minute to set up cloudflare....

        But literally, one minute 🙂 It's SO fast. I do it every few days.

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller
          last edited by

          I suppose if you don't have an account yet.

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          • Mike DavisM
            Mike Davis
            last edited by

            OK 9 minutes because I didn't have an account. It looks like I'll be able to check back tomorrow to see some analytics.

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            • travisdh1T
              travisdh1 @Mike Davis
              last edited by

              @Mike-Davis said in A Small Orange - bandwidth limit exceded:

              OK 9 minutes because I didn't have an account. It looks like I'll be able to check back tomorrow to see some analytics.

              You will be able to!

              Speaking of which... wow, 110 requests on my almost blank blog page on my home lab. Surprising because I wasn't actually working on it at the time.

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              • Reid CooperR
                Reid Cooper
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                I thought that CloudFlare would show something in about four hours.

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller
                  last edited by

                  Check the cache and security settings, you can adjust some things to reduce threats. Also, if you are running WordPress, install the CloudFlare plugin for even more benefits.

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                  • IRJI
                    IRJ
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                    I am really surprised no one recommended renaming the admin page! That alone cuts way down on blind bruteforce attacks.

                    Not to mention you could also add CAPTCHA

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                    • IRJI
                      IRJ
                      last edited by

                      https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-change-the-admin-url-or-wp-admin-to-secure-login/?replies=13

                      There are also plenty of FREE plugins that do this with one click.

                      https://wordpress.org/plugins/rename-wp-login/

                      https://wordpress.org/plugins/protect-wp-admin/

                      Wordfence also lets you do this and restrict IPs to the admin page.

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                      • Mike DavisM
                        Mike Davis @IRJ
                        last edited by

                        @IRJ said in A Small Orange - bandwidth limit exceded:

                        https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-change-the-admin-url-or-wp-admin-to-secure-login/?replies=13

                        There are also plenty of FREE plugins that do this with one click.

                        https://wordpress.org/plugins/rename-wp-login/

                        https://wordpress.org/plugins/protect-wp-admin/

                        Wordfence also lets you do this and restrict IPs to the admin page.

                        @IRJ Thanks for the tip on renaming the wp-login. I just added that.

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                        • Mike DavisM
                          Mike Davis
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                          I got my first round of Analytics from CloudFlare, and I'm not sure where to look.

                          This doesn't look right:
                          Top Traffic Origins
                          Last 24 Hours
                          Country Traffic
                          Italy 9,439
                          United States 6,841
                          Netherlands 2,145
                          Germany 883
                          Poland 826

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                          • Mike DavisM
                            Mike Davis
                            last edited by

                            I installed the CloudFlare wordpress plug-in.

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                            • JaredBuschJ
                              JaredBusch @Mike Davis
                              last edited by

                              @Mike-Davis said in A Small Orange - bandwidth limit exceded:

                              I installed the CloudFlare wordpress plug-in.

                              This part should be your biggest helper in dealing with bandwidth exceeded.

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller
                                last edited by

                                Also check out the listed threats. That'll help.

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                                • Mike DavisM
                                  Mike Davis
                                  last edited by

                                  Does this much traffic for a tiny seem out of the ordinary?

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                                  • Mike DavisM
                                    Mike Davis
                                    last edited by

                                    @scottalanmiller said in A Small Orange - bandwidth limit exceded:

                                    Also check out the listed threats. That'll help.

                                    This?
                                    0_1493165367384_CloudflareThreats.png

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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller @Mike Davis
                                      last edited by

                                      @Mike-Davis Yeah, but I guess that isn't telling us much here.

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                                      • IRJI
                                        IRJ
                                        last edited by

                                        Are you still getting constant hits on the admin page?

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                                        • StrongBadS
                                          StrongBad
                                          last edited by

                                          I think renaming that admin portal would be smart. A simple way to protect against that part of the traffic. And it will make it easier to find what else might be a target once that is moved.

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                                          • Mike DavisM
                                            Mike Davis @IRJ
                                            last edited by

                                            @IRJ said in A Small Orange - bandwidth limit exceded:

                                            Are you still getting constant hits on the admin page?

                                            I renamed the admin page with the plug in. I'm still getting hammered, but I don't understand how. The bandwidth hasn't gone down since I went to CloudFlare or renamed the admin page. What should I look at next?

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