The emergency button (Rescue): take your site offline or block visitors

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Hacked, attacked or overloaded? Take your site offline with one click, or block whoever is bombarding your site.

Here's how #

  1. Log in to your client area (my.digi.hosting), go to Services and click your plan. Choose Manage: that opens DigiPanel.
  2. Go to the Emergency button tab.
  3. Take offline: optionally write a message for your visitors and confirm. They see a neat maintenance page; you see your site as usual.
  4. Block: under "Who is loading your site right now?" you see the visitors with the most requests. Click Block next to a bot or attacker.
  5. Done? Put your site back online or click Release.

The emergency button works for your plan's main domain. Search engines get the signal that your site is temporarily away; you don't lose your place in Google.

Stuck? Open a ticket, we're happy to help.

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