[Solved] Unable To Access Site And Cpanel (Timeout)

[farbin]

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.org

USR: sroberts

 

Any help or direction is appreciated.

 

Robert

[Byron]

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.

[farbin]

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

[wolstech]

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.

[Byron]

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.

[farbin]

@wolstech

While 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.

 

@Byron

Thanks 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.