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On OVH hosting, you can’t opt out from protection

Posted on March[²⁰26], Tuesday 10.March[²⁰26], Tuesday 10. By Shrimple No Comments on On OVH hosting, you can’t opt out from protection

I at first chose an OVH hosting for this blog, because I really needed to get it going quickly and so I tried picking the most default option. I also wanted the IP to not be immediately pointing to my friends.

One day, I installed the WordPress for iOS app and somehow right then from my home network I started receiving OVH error page declaring

Your IP was banned

— along with my external IP and Request ID listed. And one of the links was to contact Support, and one to a help center.

Not sure if it was linked directly, but the help article depicting this error is here https://help.ovhcloud.com/csm/en-ie-web-hosting-your-ip-has-been-banned-diagnosis?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB0071471

And so in the support form, after, at 2AM, filling in the hostname of my hosting, the domain name,

  • the word “whole” to answer “whole or part of the site” question,
  • “Installation of app: WordPress for iOS” to answer the “error occured after a certain change” question,
  • Request ID and “Your IP has been BANNED” to answer the “error message” question,
  • and «I WANT TO ENTIRELY OPT OUT OF THIS SORT OF “PROTECTION”» as “Additional information” —

— I received a response at 8:30AM (translated; of course it misgenders me as per my customer profile):

Dear Mr Deadname, my name is Mikołaj and I am pleased to greet you as part of this report. I’ll gladly help. Taking into consideration first and foremost a precise and long-term solution to your matter, if something will not be clear to me, I will need to ask a few questions. I also invite you, if you had additional questions. I understand, that you would need, so as to get the blockade removed on your hosting. Your IP address has been blocked due to the number of requests to our servers, which was deemed too high. That may happen for two reasons. It may be related to improper structure of your web site, which results in too high a number of requests generated on the server or it may be related to your excessive activity on your websites. In case of doubts I recommend contacting an informatician specialized in the area. In case of no purposeful large activity on your side, I recommend optimizing your web site in ways described in our guide: https://help.ovhcloud.com/csm/en-ie-web-hosting-optimise-performances?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB0052975 The blockade is taken off automatically, usually in the timespan between 2 and 72 hours. Disabling this safeguard is not possible, taking into account reasons related to safety of our infrastructure as a whole.

Drogi Panie Deadname, mam na imię Mikołaj i miło mi Pana powitać w ramach tego zgłoszenia. Chętnie pomogę. Mając na względzie przede wszystkim precyzyjne i długotrwałe rozwiązanie Pana zagadnienia, jeśli coś nie będzie dla mnie jasne, będę potrzebował zadać kilka pytań. Zapraszam też, jeśli Pan miałby dodatkowe pytania. Rozumiem, że potrzebowałby Pan, by na Pana hostingu została wyłączona opisana blokada. Państwa adres IP został zablokowany ze względu na liczbę zapytań do naszych serwerów, która została uznana za zbyt wysoką. Może się tak dziać z dwóch powodów. Może być to związane z nieprawidłową budową Państwa strony internetowej, co skutkuje zbyt dużą liczbą zapytań generowaną na serwerze lub może być to związane z Państwa nadmierną aktywnością na Państwa stronach. W razie wątpliwości zalecam kontakt z informatykiem wyspecjalizowanym w tym zakresie. W przypadku braku dużej celowej aktywności po Państwa stronie, zalecam zoptymalizować Państwa stronę internetową w sposób opisany w naszym poradniku: https://help.ovhcloud.com/csm/pl-web-hosting-optimise-performances?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB0052977 Blokada jest zdejmowana automatycznie, zazwyczaj w okresie pomiędzy 2 a 72 godziny. Wyłączenie tego zabezpieczenia nie jest możliwe, mając na względzie powody związane z bezpieczeństwem naszej infrastruktury jako całości.

Yay. Oh when I will get the spoons to migrate away…

Of course it’s a cheap hosting and they have no interest in sustaining high traffic — such that usually brings little value to anyone. Maybe it’s good I didn’t get recommended to just throw money at it.

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