Cannot post from external blogging clients

  • russgreen

    (@russgreen)


    11 years, 4 months ago

    I’ve been hapily using Windows Live Writer for ages without issues but now I cannot post from it (or any other 3rd party blogging client I’ve tried).

    What happens is very odd.

    If I attempt to post wordpress is knocked offline from my site. If I remote desktop into another machine on another site my site is still accessible but not from the IP where the post was attempted.

    Usually I also find the the post in the blog as a draft.

    I tried raising this with my ISP but they’re not really accepting that the issue could be with the hosting.

    After about 15minutes the site becomes accessible again from my location.

    Its driving me insane!

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  • Adam Czajczyk

    (@ambiantepl)

    11 years, 3 months ago

    Russgreen,

    Not a good news but probably it IS issue with hosting. One of my host has a kind of security mechanisms that blocks particular IP (no access to website, mail or anything else) for an hour for example when someone trys to login to webmail and will fail 3 times. It is annoying but I’m not able to change it and now I just have to warn all my users to be extremly careful while using webmail.

    On the other hand it is good that the hosting team care for security of my data. I guess you may search your hosting admin panel for some settings – maybe you may switch it off. Anyway I’m pretty sure that it is some kind of security mechanism that thinks your Live editor is somekind of bot and blocks its IP.

    A.

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