I'm suffering DDOS attack on my site what Iinity can do to block the attack ips?

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@ManuelVoileux

With some .htaccess “tricks”

Is there a way to block an IP address without taking hits?

Unfortunately, there is no way to block an IP address without hitting a server. The only thing you can hope for is that the spammer will see that the requests are not getting through and stop hammering your website. But the IP address needs to hit your website first before it can be blocked. If you have your own domain name, you could also choose to use Cloudflare on your domain. That way, the request can be stopped by Cloudflare and doesn’t hit your hosting account.

@ManuelVoileux

Why isn’t it done upfront at the server level ? to avoid the bots to reach the sites and decrease the load on the server ?

Why do I see ?i=1 at the end of a URL

When you first open your website, you may see the extra characters like ?i=1 at the end of your URL. This article explains more about what causes it, and what you can do about it. What causes the ?i=1 suffix? This extra URL parameter is caused by a security system we use to protect your website. This security system ensures that your website can only be accessed through regular web browsers. What does the ?i=1 suffix do? The ?i=1 suffix is a counter. When you first load your website, some Ja…

And bonus

@ifastnet

We internally are now using a herd defined blocklist of bad actor ip addresses on free and premo hosting ( free took the update today) which includes over 800K ip addreses that have been ‘naughty’ over the network