> 
> > > I am constantly getting abuse from azure, amazon, digital ocean
> cloud.
> 
> > x.x.x.x is blocked because of many connection and unblock with
> 'mysqladmin flush-hosts'
> 
> Do you mean you do not want ANY connections from those sources?

This is shared web server, so I need to allow what ever else is not being 
abused at that time.

> You mention "abuse" which makes me think that these are not legitimate
> connection attempts and Maria is only blocking them after they have tried
> NN times and failed.
> 
> That sounds like you have port 3306 open to the internet, which is
> generally considered a Very Bad Thing.  (As it is for any port you don't
> need the random internet to connect to)

I know, but 3306 is not exposed. It are the websites being abused, as in not 
following robots.txt standard etc. Some mild form of dos. 

> I would suggest you close this port to the internet immediately. If you
> do need connections from the internet, then adjust your firewall to
> restrict it to accept connections from them explicitly.
> 
> Apologies if I'm misinterpreting this, but if the above is true then I
> also suggest you review your basic computer security.
>

:) no worries. Unfortunately my security is of that level, that simple minded 
web developers have problems with it and take their hosting somewhere else.



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