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# When will my account be reenabled?

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Andreas Thomas (@chronark) · 2024-07-18

Last month my personal hobby account got ddosed and disabled, which is fair.

When can I expect it to be reenabled?

I don't want to move my personal website projects to my company's paid account if possible.

Thanks,
Andreas


Amy Egan (@amyegan) · 2024-07-18

Hey @chronark! I can help with this. 

Did you make any changes to protect that site against unexpected high usage in the future? I want to be sure your account isn't going to be automatically paused again right after we unpause it.


Andreas Thomas (@chronark) · 2024-07-23

It was a one time attack I believe.

What could I even do to prevent this again?
The account mostly has publicly accessible static sites.


Amy Egan (@amyegan) · 2024-07-23

Implementing a rate limiting strategy, such as the one in this https://vercel.com/guides/rate-limiting-edge-middleware-vercel-kv guide, could help prevent similar issues in the future. 

You can also use [Vercel Firewall](https://vercel.com/docs/security/vercel-firewall#vercel-firewall) to protect your sites. [Attack Challenge Mode](https://vercel.com/docs/security/vercel-firewall#attack-challenge-mode) can be used to quickly disable traffic as a temporary measure. And [Web Application Firewall (WAF)](https://vercel.com/docs/security/vercel-firewall#web-application-firewall-waf) can be configured with custom rules.

I've unpaused your account, but please keep a close watch of usage in case it gets unexpectedly high again.