A firewall can protect your hosting environment by blocking a request that the firewall deems illegal. A firewall can exist on a software end as well as on hardware end, while on hardware end, it exists between the network and the server machine, but on software end, the firewall is an installed piece of software that scans each request and takes an action based on the configuration. While a hardware firewall is limited to the interface options it provides, a software firewall can be flexible and can provide a tons of different blocking protections that may help the server to copy with an bulk attack or malicious requests.
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3rd Party Firewall on cPanel
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CSF Firewall to Secure Your Server
One of the popular firewall plugins available for the popular hosting platform cPanel is CSF. The CSF or the ConfigServer Security & Firewall is a 3rd party plugin that can be installed to modify ipTables for enhancing blocking. There are many popular options that the CSF plugin provides such as:
- IPv4 & IPv6 port blocking
- TCP & UDP based blocking
- ICMP packet rate limiting
- Blocking IP found to be flooding server with requests
- Temporary and Permanent IP blocking
- IP range blocking
- Country Level Blocking
- SYN Flood Protection
- Port Flood Protection
- Relay Tracking & Protection
With so many different blocking and connection limiting features available, one can install and configure the firewall as per required.
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