Thread: ShieldUp - Ultimate WordPress Security and Performance Solution!

ShieldUp.me - Your Ultimate Solution for WordPress Website Security and Performance!


Tired of bad bots, scrapers, attackers and sluggish website performance?

By providing real-time monitoring of accessing IPs, HTTP codes, URLs, and user agents, organized analytics, customizable timeline and visualizations,
ShieldUp will help you indentify and combat threats like bad bots, scrapers, malicous attackers.
Which will improve website security and performance by reducing the load on your server resources for a snappy website and great user experience.



A little intro
This plugin was born out of necessity.
I faced constant bot attacks and server performance issues across my network of websites, leading to slow and unresponsive servers, poor user experiences, and even bad effects on rankings.
After extensive research, I discovered the root causes of these problems and developed this powerful tool to address them.
I realized that others might be facing similar challenges, and thus, this invaluable solution was born...







Key Features

🛡️ Advanced Security
ShieldUp protects your site from malicious bots, scrapers, attackers and hackers, shielding your website from potential threats.

🚀 Optimized Performance
Improve website speed and user experience by eliminating unnecessary requests from scrapers, bad bots and brute force attackers

🗃️ Comprehensive Data Collection
ShieldUp logs and archive accessing IPs, HTTP response codes, URLs, user agents, timestamps, etc.

📊 Detailed Data Insights
ShieldUp will analyze, organize and displays IP data based on IP ranges, request counts, details, offering a comprehensive view of your traffic within user-friendly tables.

📅 Custom Time Period
Select specific time ranges through an intuitive calendar feature for in-depth data analysis.

📈 Visualize Data
Easily visualize traffic trends and patterns with our user-friendly graphs.

🛠️ IP Tools
Helps you with actions like retrieving detailed IP information from DB or third-party tools.

🌐 Cloudflare Integration (Pro)
Seamlessly connect your website to Cloudflare, enhancing security and performance even further by leverage Cloudflare's powerful features.

⚙️ Advanced IP Management (Pro)
Take control with a click. Manage IPs and IP ranges effortlessly, with actions like blocking, JavaScript challenges, whitelisting, or remove rules using Cloudflare's firewall through the plugin.

💼 Centralized IP Database (Pro)
Keep all IPs controlled by your WP plugin and Cloudflare in a centralized database for efficient management and tracking.

📝 User Activity Logging (Pro)
Maintain detailed logs of all IP controls by users, ensuring accountability and providing a historical record of security actions.

🏆 Priority Support (Pro)
Pro members get priority support, so you can expect quick help with any questions or issues.



What versions do we have?

ShieldUp comes in Free and Pro(Paid) version, designed to meet your unique needs.

With our Free version, you get all the essential features.
It'll gather, organize, sort, select, and visually present who, how, what, and when is accessing your website.

Upgrade to ShieldUp Pro for even more power and ease of use!
And by the way, we have a totally FREE 7-day trial - No credit card, No obligation.

And you gain access to advanced security measures and comprehensive IP management.
Easily monitor and control IPs, ban bots, scrapers, and malicious visitors.
Introduce advanced security and optimize your website's performance with seamless Cloudflare integration.

Yes, the Pro version is undeniably impressive.
However, the free version is really what you need and will get the job done.

And don't worry, this plugin is lightweight, meticulously optimized, and self-cleaning.
It's designed to keep your website swift, even while effortlessly handling millions of records.

So, give it a try, leave it installed, gathering and processing the data.
You never know when you will need it, trust me, you will be glad that you have it once things start to go down the drain...



How it works

1. Installation and Activation
Start by downloading and installing the ShieldUp plugin.
Once activated, it seamlessly integrates with your WordPress, ready to work its magic.

2. Data Collection
ShieldUp starts by collecting crucial data about the traffic to your website.
It keeps a record of accessing IPs, including HTTP response codes, URLs, user agents, and timestamps.
This data is organized into user-friendly tables and presented through interactive graphs, allowing you to gain valuable insights into your website's traffic patterns.

3. Select, Organize and Display Data
You can choose a specific time frame, making it easy to identify which IPs are accessing your site the most.
It also groups IPs into /16 and /24 ranges and along with graphical representation helps you visualize trends, spot unusual activity and potential security threats.

4. Cloudflare Integration (Pro)
ShieldUp seamlessly integrates with Cloudflare in PRO version, enhancing your website's security even further.
Using the Cloudflare API, you can manage IPs and IP ranges right from your WordPress dashboard.
Implement blocks, JavaScript challenges, whitelist entries, or remove rules with just a few clicks.

5. IP Tools & IP Management
Each IP listed in the user-friendly interface comes with action buttons, enabling you to ban IPs in your website's firewall or CloudFlare.
Retrieve detailed IP information from third-party tools, and perform other custom actions.

6. Enhanced Security
ShieldUp employs advanced security measures to protect your website from a wide range of threats.
It identifies and blocks malicious bots, scrapers, attackers, and hackers, ensuring that your website remains secure.

7. Optimized Website Performance
In addition to security, ShieldUp optimizes your website's performance.
It achieves this by filtering out unnecessary requests from bad bots, scrapers and other unwanted traffic.
This optimization reduces the load on your server resources, resulting in a snappy and responsive website and great user experience.



Firewalls, What we recommend?

One of the best options would be a hardware-type firewall, but we wouldn't be in this situation if we had one.

The next best thing is a cloud-based firewall, like CloudFlare, especially if it is free and offers a plethora of great features; then, it's a no-brainer.

So, why do we think CloudFlare is a better solution than "Traditional" Server/Software-Based Firewall (CSF) or Plugin-Like Firewalls (WordPress Plugins)?

Traditional firewalls, while valuable, have limitations when compared to Cloudflare's robust security and performance capabilities.
These firewalls primarily protect your server or website by consuming server resources, leaving them vulnerable to large-scale attacks, among other things.
In contrast, Cloudflare operates a global network that defends against threats at the network edge, providing superior DDoS protection and accelerated content delivery.
By choosing Cloudflare, you gain a comprehensive, cloud-based solution that strengthens your website's resilience and speed, effectively surpassing the capabilities of traditional local firewalls.


Here are some of the main features of CloudFlare:

1. Global Network Security
Cloudflare operates a vast global network that acts as a protective shield for your website, filtering out malicious traffic and threats before they even reach your server.
This distributed approach ensures that attacks are mitigated at the network edge, preserving your server resources.

2. Content Caching
Cloudflare's caching infrastructure stores copies of your website's content at data centers around the world.
This means visitors experience faster load times as they access cached content from a server nearest to them, reducing server load and improving website responsiveness.

3. Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Cloudflare offers a comprehensive Web Application Firewall that can be finely tuned to your specific needs.
It provides a robust defense against common web application attacks, such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS), without the need for additional on-site firewall plugins.

4. IP Control and Access Management
Cloudflare's firewall allows you to control and manage IP access with precision.
You can easily set rules to block or allow specific IPs, IP ranges, or countries, giving you granular control over who can access your website.

5. DDoS Protection
Cloudflare's network is designed to withstand large-scale DDoS attacks, providing a shield against volumetric threats that would overwhelm on-site firewalls.
This ensures uninterrupted website availability.

6. Performance Optimization
Cloudflare's content delivery network (CDN) optimizes the delivery of your website's assets, including images, scripts, and stylesheets, resulting in reduced latency and faster load times for your visitors.

7. Scalability and Reliability
Cloudflare's infrastructure is highly scalable and redundant, ensuring that your website remains available even during traffic spikes or server failures.


By integrating Cloudflare with your WordPress site, you not only enhance security but also optimize performance, reduce server load, and simplify IP access control,
all while benefiting from Cloudflare's global network and advanced security features. It's a comprehensive solution that takes your website's protection and performance to the next level.


This is why we use it on all our websites, including the Pro version of this plugin as well.
Therefore, we strongly recommend that you use it for your website if you haven't already, whether you intend to use this plugin or not.



Installation

Just download it from shieldup.me and activate it and wait until it collects some data for you so you can see what is going on with your website traffic.
Requires Wordpress Version at least : 5.3.2
It is tested up to Wordpress Version: 6.3.1
Requires at least PHP : 7.2.1



Notification

Since this is the initial (sort of beta) release, there may be occasional bugs or errors.
Please report them here or send an email to info@shieldup.me. I'll be updating this thread as needed, and if you have any questions, feel free to ask.

Seems good, thanks. Also thanks for the Free Tool IMT Website Submitter(Indexer)