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Re: I can’t ping my website<\/strong><\/p>\n

You can usually ping your website such as “ping mydomain.com’ which will reveal the IP address of your site and that the server is responding.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately this can also be used by hackers to find potentially hackable sites and servers.<\/p>\n

For this reason our firewalls block all ICMP PING requests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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