Would you consider blocking all datacenter IPs for your WordPress?

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Mynovel

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Blocking datacenter IPs can significantly reduce malicious traffic, as many automated attacks originate from these IP ranges.

I already have Country Block, but it is now enough . Now I found a list of datacenter IPs on github.

Would you consider blocking all datacenter IPs for your website?
 
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I don't think that's a good idea. Most search engines, like Google and Bing, use data center IPs to crawl websites. If they cannot crawl it, they cannot rank it.
 
I certainly do not recommend to do that.

If you got many automated visitors; why don't you consider using CloudFlare?
 
Nope I would allow as it could be counted as traffic so far .
 
Mynovel said:
Blocking datacenter IPs can significantly reduce malicious traffic, as many automated attacks originate from these IP ranges.

I already have Country Block, but it is now enough . Now I found a list of datacenter IPs on github.

Would you consider blocking all datacenter IPs for your website?
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If your site is suffering so badly from malicious bot traffic, I'd probably just invest in a better server and CDN rather than ban anything non-residential in an ad hoc manner.
 
I just set Wordfence to weed out all unwanted traffic.
Whether it comes from datacenter proxies or not I don't care.
 
Definitely don't do this. Unless you're having issues right now, don't block anything. Create a filter to temporarily block ips that connects too much at once or that attempts something suspicious.
 
Mynovel said:
Blocking datacenter IPs can significantly reduce malicious traffic, as many automated attacks originate from these IP ranges.

I already have Country Block, but it is now enough . Now I found a list of datacenter IPs on github.

Would you consider blocking all datacenter IPs for your website?
Click to expand...
No sir. Try cloudflare
 
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