WordPress bot attacks are on the rise. Your website is under an automated attack every 30 seconds. Bot Protection’s mission is to keep your data safe from malicious actors, without hindering legitimate users.
By adding a captcha or asking for an email address, you can dramatically increase the cost of launching a WordPress bot attack by forcing bots to solve a captcha (or pay for an email address) for every post or comment they attempt to spam.
Keep your website safe from automated attacks, without slowing down user experience with Bot Protection’s easy-to-use Javascript API.
The cloudways bot protection is a new layer of security for customer data. It is designed to be an instant response to any potential threats, which can boost your online business with increased efficiency and less downtime.
The cloudways bot protection service has been proven in the market by helping thousands of businesses stay safe from cyberattacks without having to alter their current operations or pay more money on IT maintenance costs.
If you are looking for a way to protect your website against bots that may have malicious intent, consider how the CloudWays Bot Protection Service might benefit you!
How to Activate Bot Protection
Step #1 — Navigate to Bot Protection
Log in to your Cloudways Platform
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From the top menu bar, open Servers.
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Then, choose the server where your desired application is deployed.
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Next, click www.
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Choose your desired application’s name.
- Under Application Management, select Bot Protection.
Step #2 — Enabling Bot Protection
Finally, toggle on Active to activate the Bot Protection. Once prompted for confirmation, hit OK to continue.
What is Bot Protection
Bot Protection is a must-have plugin for any WordPress site. It identifies and blocks malicious traffic, keeping your website safe from attacks like Dictionary attacks, Web Scraping, XMLRPC attacks, and Brute Force attacks.
Bot Protection also helps to reduce server resource usage for WordPress applications – making your website faster and more reliable.
How can Bot Protection help my website?
Bot Protection helps to keep your WordPress application safe and stable, by identifying and blocking malicious traffic. You can configure various settings which will allow or block specific traffic.
This way you have full control over the visitors that see your content. By default, most of the attacks are blocked which can help to keep your website safe. However, you might still get some attacks or spam comments.
You can manage them in the Blocked Users section of the plugin’s Settings page.
How does Bot Protection work?
Bot Protection starts working as soon as you install and activate it on your WordPress site. It identifies and blocks malicious traffic, while allowing legitimate access. The plugin uses a list of suspected bots and spiders to identify fake traffic.
It relies on a variety of criteria, including the user agent string, IP addresses, apparent geographic location from geolocation databases, HTTP referrer information from third-party sites or even from search engines, time to first byte (TTFB), the Referrer header, request rate, and others.
Features of Bot Protection
• Login Page protection. – Checks that the user is a real human being when they login.
• Filtering of Bad Bots and Rouge Traffic. – Filters out Bad Bots and Rogue traffic in order to drive up page views.
• Independent dashboard for monitoring. – Monitor Bot Protection from the main site control panel. [Featured Image] [General Information Box]
• Included in all Server Plans. – No extra charge for Bot Protection with any of our hosting plans, which are shared hosting up to VPS plans.
• No impact on site performance. – Bots are filtered out using server-side processing making it faster than client-side filtering.
Protection Against Denial of Service Attacks
A DoS attack, also known as a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, is an attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users.
This can be achieved by flooding the target machine with traffic from many sources so that it cannot respond to legitimate requests from real users.
The attacker typically aims for the web server hosting the site, but can also target other important infrastructure components such as email servers, DNS servers, and firewalls.
In order to mount a successful DoS attack, the perpetrator must have control of large numbers of hosts that can be used to generate traffic (bots). These bots are often infected with malware and controlled
When your website is under a denial of service (DoS) attack, it’s like the bully at school who takes your lunch money every day. Except in this case, the bully is a horde of automated bots that send requests faster than your server can handle, so legitimate visitors are denied access to the website resources they need.
Bot Protection provides detailed information about the traffic received on a website, you can identify a sudden spike in traffic from unrecognized (or unwanted) sources and immediately move to block the sources to minimize damage to your website.
Protection Against Brute Force Attacks
Brute force attack is a powerful tool used by hackers to break into websites. This attempt is made possible by using bots to launch the attack and by trying various password combinations. Hackers use brute force attacks to gain access to confidential information or to take over websites.
Bot Protection is the perfect tool for keeping your website safe from unauthorized access.
Bot Protection conveniently displays the list of all login attempts, complete with important details like the login URL and user name.
In addition to logging successful, failed, and blocked login attempts, you can also block IP addresses that you don’t recognize. Keep your website safe from hackers with Bot Protection!
Five distinctive sections in the dashboard (from top to bottom). Keep your website safe from online threats with Quicks Stats Section. Inactive/Active: This switch activates and deactivates the Bot Protection feature. Blocked Traffic: The count of all requests blocked so far by the monitoring system on your website within the applicable time. Blocked Logins: The count of all attempts being blocked so far by the monitoring system on your login page. Attempts are blocked when there are four unsuccessful logins within the applicable time. Refresh Data to fetch the latest statistics! Traffic Request is the perfect tool for webmasters and developers who want to understand and analyze the traffic their site is getting. It provides information on each and every request, including the method used, client IP address, Referer header, user agent string, and more. With Traffic Request, you can see exactly where your visitors are coming from and what they’re using to access your site. To see more information about the traffic requests, click Show More. All: This shows all the traffic statistics and the time of visit, IP address, country, method, path, user agent, response code, and status of whether the request was allowed or blocked. Allowed: This section filters out all the requests that were allowed. Blocked: This section filters out all the requests that were blocked. To whitelist an IP you think is legit, simply click ✓. This means that from now on, Bot Protection will never block that IP address. To remove the IP from the whitelist, click ✕. Click Refresh Data to fetch the latest statistics. Click Back to Main to return to the main dashboard. The reports also present a filtered view of ‘Allowed’ and ‘Blocked’ traffic requests tracking ease. A set of attributes are presented for each request, including: Time — The time this request was made (according to your server time). IP — The source IP from where the request was made. Country — The geolocation of the IP making the request. Method — The type of method used in the request. Path — The resource that the request was trying to POST to or gather information from. User Agent — A fingerprint left by the originating request usually includes what type of Application/OS was used to make the query. Response — The HTTP code the requesting IP got, which might help understand what the client could view from their end. Default codes guidelines; 1xx Informational response 2xx Success 3xx Redirection 4xx Client errors 5xx Server errors Status — Whether a traffic request was permitted or denied. Login Request is an essential tool for understanding and troubleshooting your login process. By tracking all login requests, you can quickly see where things are going wrong and fix them before they cause trouble for your customers. With Login Request, you’ll have peace of mind knowing that your login process is running smoothly. To see more information about the login requests, click Show More. All: This shows all the login requests statistics and the time of the request, IP address, country, username, message, and status whether the login was successful, failed, or blocked. Failed: This section filters out all the login requests that failed due to invalid credentials. Blocked: This section filters out all the login requests that were blocked. Succeeded: This section filters out all the successful login requests. To whitelist an IP you think is legit, simply click ✓. This means that from now on, Bot Protection will never block that IP address. To remove the IP from the whitelist, click ✕. Click Refresh Data to fetch the latest statistics. Click Back to Main to return to the main dashboard. The reports also present a filtered view of ‘Failed’, ‘Blocked’, and ‘Succeeded’ login requests for tracking ease. A set of attributes are presented for each request, including: Time — The time this request was made (according to your server time). IP — The source IP from where the request was made. Country — The geolocation of the IP address. Username — The username used to attempt to log in. Message — What error message login screen showed due to unsuccessful login. Status — Whether a request was permitted or denied. All Login Attempts is an essential tool for keeping your login information safe and secure. This section provides a quick glimpse into a few recent logins, so you can be sure that your username and password are always changing. No failed attempts will be shown in this section, so you can feel confident that your login information is always kept private. This section displays those bots which are flagged as bad and blocked. To see more information or whitelist any bot you think is legitimate, click Show More. Here, you will find more insights about the bad bots crawling on your site. To whitelist any bot, simply click ✓. This means that from now on, Bot Protection will never block that IP address. To remove the bot from the whitelist, click ✕.
No, you can only choose and allow the IP/traffic which has already attempted to connect to your website and was previously blocked for the time being. However, the current manual functionality within this feature will enable you to manually allow not block.
That shouldn’t be a problem. If you had such a plugin installed before but kept it deactivated from your wp-admin, our interface would show as ‘inactive’. Should you wish to use Bot Protection, remove the old plugin, and toggle ‘active’ from the Bot Protection page.
When you activate the Bot Protection from the Cloudways Platform, the system will install the plugin for your WordPress application. If you deactivate it, then the plugin will be uninstalled. Please note that this switch is application-based, so your one application can have active Bot Protection, and other applications can have inactive simultaneously. How to Use Bot Protection
Quicks Stats Section
Traffic Request
Login Request
All Login Attempts
Traffic from Bad Bots
FAQs: Cloudways Bot Protection
🔥Can I manually enter bad IPs or Bot names, which I already know I want to block?<br />
✔️ I already had Malcare installed before migrating to the Cloudways; what will happen?
✅ What happens when I toggle between Inactive/Active Bot Protection from Cloudways Platform?
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