An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label assigned to each device connected to a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication. An IP address serves two main functions: host or network interface identification and location addressing.
Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) defines an IP address as a 32-bit number. However, because of the growth of the Internet and the depletion of available IPv4 addresses, a new version of IP (IPv6), using 128 bits for the IP address, was standardized in 1998. IPv6 deployment has been ongoing since the mid-2000s.
The quickest and easiest way to discover your public IP address is to type into Google.com “what is my IP address”. You’ll see it at the top. Highlight and copy this address. It will look like 111.111.111.111 or similar.
Are you using WordFence to secure your WordPress application? Have you been doing some admin action, like scanning for some file, or loading lots of pages which keeps triggering the firewall and blocking you out? Whatever it is you’d like to do, it can make a lot of sense to whitelist your IP address (or …
Namecheap allows you to host your own nameservers, and therefore point your domains at your VPS or dedicated server‘s IP address more quickly in future, by doing the following: Note you only need to do this once, for the domain with which you will host the nameservers. Your future domains (assuming they reside on the …
Today’s tutorial contains a couple of quick fixes which will block out everyone you don’t want from even trying to login to your site. Please note, this will physically block all visitors who don’t come from your list of trusted IP addresses from: Attempting to login (by accessing wp-login.php); and Accessing the wp-admin directory at …
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