farbin Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 I have not been able to connect to my site not to the cPanel within the past few days.I always get a timeout message and after reading some of the forum post, I was wondering if I had been bocked (firewall). URL: thrushings.heliohost.orgUSR: sroberts Any help or direction is appreciated. Robert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byron Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 You were blocked by our firewall for this reason: DOS 33 connections - Sat Oct 10 12:23:42 2015 Ok you should be alright now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farbin Posted October 13, 2015 Author Share Posted October 13, 2015 Thank you for your assistance.Is there anything I can do to limit this from happening again (i.e. internally) or is it just one of those things (external forces)? Robert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolstech Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 FTP is usually the cause, though the reason given is usually "FTP 200 connections" or the like. Sometimes, it just happens. If it recurs, we can look into it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byron Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 It means that during a denial of service attack your IP was using 33 connections, and was blocked to allow the server to start working again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farbin Posted October 16, 2015 Author Share Posted October 16, 2015 @wolstechWhile I rarely use FTP on the site, I recently was trying out a plug-in to automatically back-up a database to Dropbox (UpDraftPlus). I have disabled it for now, but I wonder if that could be the cause? I have never run into this problem before this. @ByronThanks for the clarification. I sort of figured that is what it meant, but I don't get a lot of traffic because the site is just a personal learning project. I'm not out advertising, so I thought 33 connections was somehow off. Thanks again for everyone's help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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