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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

Posted

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.

Posted

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

Posted

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.

Posted

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.

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@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.

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