Video Summary

Now, if you wanted to, you could go and block traffic by IP address and you can also block it out. Here you can pick which countries you want to block. So let’s say you are doing business, so you only want to do business between Canada US and Mexico. So just all in North America, and what you could do is you can come here and you can take all of the countries that are not those and block them. But if you look, this is a routine long list so it might be very time consuming, but it might be worth it to you to watch all of the overseas hackers that have tried to they’ve tried to hack your website. So I’ve had clients and I’ve had myself where maybe it’s where there’s like two to five countries that are always trying to hack you. And if you’re not doing business with them, why even open yourself up for that? So what you can do is you go there and it’s blocked those countries right. 

Now, I know you’re probably thinking too is that how in the heck do I find out what IP addresses I should do? So what I’m going to show you is that if you go to SiteGround security and go to active activity log, if you come here to blocked there already, like it could be because there’s nothing here Yes, because maybe you haven’t entered anything in here or there’s for this example, we’ll just shop clutches of course and.com There’s no one really coming to this website, right? I mean, I’m doing this as a demo. It’s not I’m not advertising for it, so there’s no really reason to be blocked. But if you came here and you go unknown, and maybe instead of visitor type instead of human it says bot maybe you want to copy and hide that IP address. 

You know, what, what you could do is you come here and you can come grab this, you can copy this and come into here, or come into here and paste this and block. Alright, so that’s something that you could do yourself. Now if you are rocking. 

If you are rocking the word fence you can also set up your blocking right here by by the IP addresses that that might be you know, are trying to do malicious things, right? Like they might be like they’ll show up because you are maybe they have like so many failed login attempts. So you know that this person is actually actively trying to hack into your admin. So here’s where you can set off the block right here, right? You can also block by country, the upgraded premium. 

And you might be able to do kind of a range of IP addresses. So I’m not I don’t want to get too far into this. But this is a cool way to block countries and if you know and find the IP addresses either through the SiteGround security plugin, or even the WordPress plugin that’s saying here like these people are trying to log in, you know, they’ve been you know, they’ve been locked out for an hour. Here’s where you can come in and add them as a blog. And you can also potentially just do it from your wordfence plugin as well. So let me know if you have any questions. But I think that wraps up the SiteGround security options. The one thing too is like there’s a site scanner, but they already have that built into our hosting platform. So they do scan it on occasion.

But if you want to upgrade to the premium where they set all of our stuff up, you can but that’s pretty much all they’re trying to sell you right here to purchase the site scanner, so it’s not really an option that we can mess with. So I’m gonna sell this video here, and I think there’s one last thing we’re gonna talk about and then we’re gonna move on to the next lesson. So I’ll see you guys in the next video.