Choose per site which bots are blocked. Each site page now has a “Bots on this site” block: which bots visited in the last 24 hours, how much server work they cost and how often they were turned away. Tick per bot whether it is blocked, for example to let an AI search bot in or keep an SEO tool out. Googlebot and Bing are always welcome. Available from Verploy Connector 2.18; Verploy updates the connector by itself.
Advice per bot. The same block now shows our advice for each bot: allow, block or your choice, with the reason. The advice depends on what a bot does, not on how often it visits: search engines and the search bots of ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity help clients get found; bots that only collect text for AI training or for someone else’s SEO index bring nothing back. If your choice differs, you see it right away, and “Apply advice” sets everything in one step.
Firewall and malware scan, starting with Verploy Connector 2.19. One-click hardening gets a firewall that stops known attack patterns (such as SQL injection and probing for secret files), locks login for half an hour after 10 failed attempts and blocks IP addresses that keep attacking, while forms and shops keep working. The site page shows what it stopped in the last 24 hours, and you can block IP addresses yourself. Verploy also scans the PHP files of your sites every night for clear signs of malware, such as web shells and hidden code; it only reads and changes nothing. Both start with Verploy Connector 2.19; Verploy updates the connector by itself as soon as it is available.
API keys, REST API and MCP. Under Settings you can now create API keys. With a key, an AI assistant such as Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor can answer questions like “which sites are offline?” or “which updates are still waiting?” through the Verploy MCP connection, and your own tools can fetch the same data through the REST API. A key gives read-only access to your sites, updates, alerts, backups and update runs, and you can revoke it at any time.