Case Study: 2600 Solutions achieves strong brute-force protection and 60% bandwidth savings with Cloudflare Rate Limiting

2600 Solutions Protects Their Clients’ Websites With Cloudflare’s Rate Limiting

2600 Solutions is a boutique IT consulting firm in Hawaii that manages WordPress sites for small businesses across the islands. The company was being hit by frequent brute‑force attacks targeting wp‑admin/admin.php — more than 200 attempts in 24 hours — and needed a way to stop malicious traffic without disrupting legitimate users.

2600 Solutions deployed Cloudflare’s Rate Limiting alongside its CDN and DNS, using per‑IP and overall request thresholds to block abusive requests. The move blocked over 3,000 malicious requests in a month, delivered about 60% bandwidth savings and IP obfuscation, reduced attacking addresses, and removed the need for tedious manual blacklisting, restoring peace of mind.

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