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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I chose Sucuri because they came recommended by our host, I should've looked them up first. The wait time to get a response is ridiculous, it took a full day for my case to get assigned, then only hea... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

4 sites offline all day, support tickets ignored. Live chat useless. Sites are down because they’re unsecure as your SSL has expired. Same thing has happened multiple times over the last 18 months. Ap... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

It works well when everything is going smoothly, but don't expect the support they advertise when something goes wrong. It's really sad that support is there to help onboard you and then disappears a... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Terrible support! I wish I saw the reviews before subscribing. It's been a complete and total waste of time. I signed up for their Pro plan yesterday (over 24hrs) and according to their website,... See more

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Established in 2008 and now part of the GoDaddy family, Sucuri was founded to build the most effective and affordable technology and services for website security and performance. All Sucuri products and services come backed by support from website security professionals available 24/7. Sucuri is also highly regarded for producing some of the most concise educational website security resources available today.


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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

The firewall is a joke

The firewall is a joke! I got hacked several times and they have direct access to your website and modify all your files. My online business was deeply hurt by this company, the customer service does not reply your ticket and it takes forever for a response. Don't use sucuri is the worst firewall and malware removal.

January 25, 2022
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Reply from Sucuri Security

Hi there,

We regret any inconvenience you experienced. Nobody should feel ignored. You can always reach us at feedback@sucuri.net.

We would like to do additional research to identify the problem you experienced. Can you please provide us with the email address associated with your account and your invoice number? This will help us to further investigate and provide more detailed information in regards to your complaint. You can provide us with the requested information at feedback@sucuri.net.

Thank you,
-Sucuri

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I have given up and quit this useless…

I have given up and quit this useless company. I had posted several reviews of their shoddy service and bait and switch practices here and they convinced trustpilot to remove them! Incredible.

So here we go again...

Final review for this joke of a company and their horrible sales and customer service staff. Unlike most on here I was pleased with the tech support. I HAD a larger plan that got me quicker access and the techs I worked with were fine. My problem is with how poorly their script reading drones are at dealing with customer issues. The last straw was an "AD HOC" fee charged to me to clean a site that got hacked because their parent company (GoDaddy) gave the passwords away to 1.2 million websites and didn't tell anyone for 2 months. This affected the site in question I had behind their Firewall. When I wrote to complain about this conflict of interest to customer service they just pointed to the contract that says I owed the fee and refused to take any responsibility for the "hack" on my site. GoDaddy (their parent company) had made a colossal mistake that has cost millions of people, time, money and future business but this subsidiary (Sucuri) has found a way to make more money from their customers misery and they don't care. I pointed out to my Customer Service rep VICTOR, whats the point of using your firewall if your parent company is just going to give hackers the keys to all their sites? His response was this: "It's convenient for firefighters to have arsons and tragic fires to respond to so they have a career path, yes." My last correspondence with him noted that he forgot add this to the beginning of his genius observation “When the Fire Chief is setting the fires… It's convenient for firefighters to have arsons and tragic fires to respond to so they have a career path, yes." Don't believe anything they tell you and sign no contracts with them.

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02.02.22 - Updated.

Please take note that the BS boilerplate reply makes no mention of the GoDaddy hack and the money Sucuri made from it.

January 13, 2022
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Reply from Sucuri Security

Hi there,

We have appreciated your business and are always sad to see any of our customers leave - especially those who have been a long time customer.

Our platform plans do include clean-ups; however our multi-site plans do not. We sincerely apologize for any confusion this difference in plans may have caused.

We try to the best of our ability to provide help in every situation and interaction with our customers. We are sorry that you have left and we wish you continued success online.

Thank you,
-Sucuri

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

4 sites offline all day

4 sites offline all day, support tickets ignored. Live chat useless. Sites are down because they’re unsecure as your SSL has expired. Same thing has happened multiple times over the last 18 months. Appalling service and unacceptable lack of response. Nothing has been done to resolve the obvious issue that your system does not renew SSLs automatically every time

December 17, 2021
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

So far very pleased

I was a bit apprehensive after reading some of the reviews here, but i have to say that currently i'm very pleased.
They have managed to help me on number of occurrences with quick solutions and very professional help.
Thanks guys!

December 10, 2021
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Sucuri support takes 24 hours to respond very frustrating

Customer support via ticket takes 24 hours. Chat is useless because they won't help you other than get to know that you have an account in their database.

Their reply comes after 18 hours while you suffer downtime. Meanwhile, you have to pray that they will not ask you additional questions because for every question that you answer, they take 24 hours to respond. If there are 3 questions, that will mean 72 hours of your website being offline because the customer support is slow to respond to tickets.

December 8, 2021
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Do not use

Do not use! I didn't check reviews and used them to help remove malware. They destroyed my site! Total joke and incompetent

September 15, 2021
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Reply from Sucuri Security

Hi Tom,

We regret the experience with Sucuri resulting in the disruption to your site.

It looks like this was an issue of missed communication, as there are instances where malware is hardcoded into the site’s theme, plugins, and/or .htaccess that can cause things to break once removed. Prior to malware removals our remediation team does keep a copy of the previous site in case these instances occur, and we advise updating a malware removal ticket so our remediation team can reference that previous copy, to rectify it promptly.

We do understand the frustration an infected site can cause and hope this clears things up a bit. You can always contact us at feedback@sucuri.net for further questions.

--- Sucuri (AS)

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Thankfully I don't need to use them…

Thankfully I don't need to use them much anymore but when I do, it's a stressful experience. Had an email from my hosting provider saying that there was an infected file in my website. No alerts from Sucuri which was telling and therefore opened a ticket. All going well and Sucuri asked me to add some IPs to the allowlist - all done and now with the support ticket open, they seem to have gone off grid. I can't open a new support ticket because the old one is still open and no communication from them saying how long the process of clean up is likely to take. I don't mind waiting a few days for them to action but the lack of communication points to a poor service. The clean up's they do are fine but the whole customer service experience is unfortunately a shambles

August 29, 2021
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Reply from Sucuri Security

Hi Liz,

We appreciate your honesty and are very sorry for the confusion that’s occurred here.

Hosting providers can provide false positives with their scans, or there’s the possibility of a zero day exploit in some cases. It’s unusual our system didn’t allow you to respond under the existing ticket (as our ticketing system only locks a ticket after a certain time frame of no response) or open a new one. We’d like to investigate this further however.

If you have any additional details regarding the tickets in question here, please feel free to reach out to us at feedback@sucuri.net.

--- Sucuri (AS)

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

This website is very misleading.

This website is very misleading.
I took a subscription to monitor my website for uptime, malware etc.
My website is almost 3 years offline and I'm still getting emails every week with a report that my website is working excellent. How trustworthy is this service?

August 23, 2021
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Reply from Sucuri Security

Hi Hugo,

We’re very sorry this occurred to your site for such an extensive amount of time.

If this was an ongoing hosting connection timeout or misconfiguration within the site’s settings, this can cause our firewall to not connect properly to the original hosting server. Meanwhile, the monitoring service will CURL the site and if it returns a 20x, 30x, and 403 for sites behind Sucuri Firewall this is considered up. Sites returning a 40x or 50x response will be considered down.

We hope this clears things up a bit. If you have further details regarding the tickets in question here, please feel free to reach out to us at feedback@sucuri.net.

--- Sucuri (AS)

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Do not use this service

Do not use this service, they deleted most of my website. They are part of Godaddy hosting, really bad service. Do not use - i suggest making your own website backup and if you get any problems just re upload.

August 2, 2021
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Reply from Sucuri Security

Hi James,

We regret the disruption that occurred to the site here.

Certain malware can be hardcoded into the site’s theme, plugins, dashboard, ot .htaccess that can cause things to be temporarily broken.

Our remediation team actually does keep their own backup prior to initializing the cleanup, so they can always restore any missing content for you. It’s important to note that reverting back to a backup can restore the site temporarily, yet automated attacks can still detect those same site vulnerabilities that occurred prior to the infection.

We recommend ongoing protection to prevent the constant need to restore from said backup to prevent any further frustration or site downtime.

I hope this helps clarify things better.

--- Sucuri (AS

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

super worst customer support

worst customer support,

I had website connection problem they reply very slow,
<12hour

August 2, 2021
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Reply from Sucuri Security

Hi Min,

We’re very sorry you had this experience.

Depending on the level of service purchased, this can result in different SLA response times.

There are certain instances where a high volume of tickets can cause a delay outside of the SLA response time, however, but we’d be glad to investigate this further to confirm.

Please reach out to us at feedback@sucuri.net if you can.


--- Sucuri (AS)

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

This company is impossible to deal…

This company is impossible to deal with. Once you sign up they will never talk to you again. Everything needs to be done by ticket support which takes forever. I would never use them again.

July 1, 2021
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Reply from Sucuri Security

Hi Sue,

We apologize for the inconvenience here.

Since our CloudProxy and Remediation teams handle a lot of site-related issues each day in regards to attacks, they’re unable to provide phone support due to the extensive research and time this can take. We do provide phone and chat support, however, and can escalate the ticket to those teams so it’s addressed promptly for you.

I hope this clears things up a bit.

--- Sucuri (AS)

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Stay _far_ away from this

Stay far away from this. WAF is slow and inept, the dashboard is buggy and removing any service is a painful experience with impacted services and poor support. This service may have once been good, but not anymore.

May 14, 2021
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Reply from Sucuri Security

Hi JL,

We’re very sorry for the lackluster service you experienced with us.

In cases where our clients are experiencing latency issues such as this, we always recommend having one of our technical analysts investigate this further. They’re able to pull logs and determine which requests are resulting in this while comparing it with requests through the hosting server itself.

If you were experiencing any bugs within the dashboard itself, we’d like to report those to our engineers to make sure those are addressed if possible. You’re always welcome to provide us this information at feedback@sucuri.net.

We appreciate your input, and hope this helps clarify our firewall service some more.

--- Sucuri (AS)

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Unresponsive, uncaring, useless

We have a problem where from our internal network we can't get to our own websites. We know the problem is with Sucuri and have raised an issue however response has been absolutely pathetic, there is no-one you can escalate to. I will be looking to retire Sucuri after this ...
The irony is that we are being denied access to our websites by our DDOS protection partners !!!!!
AND THEY DON'T CARE !!!!

April 7, 2021
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Reply from Sucuri Security

Hi Peter,

We regret you had this experience with our firewall service.

We certainly do care when a client is experiencing blocks accessing their sites.

Our CloudProxy analysts are able to escalate any complex issues to a higher tier of analysts if needed. However, in most cases, the firewall is only relaying the information received from the origin server, and if that server goes offline or blocks our firewall IPs, we can only relay our logs so it’s addressed with the hosting provider directly.

In case of being denied access, there are various firewall signatures we provide a solution for, but the most common one is whitelisting your current IP.

We understand these dilemmas can be frustrating, but hope this helps clarify some things.

--- Sucuri (AS)

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Stay Away. As far as you can. Worst Customer support.

Forget about it. Worst customer support ever. If your website is down they won't reply for 48 hours...

April 3, 2021
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Reply from Sucuri Security

Hi Karan,

We appreciate your feedback and we’re very sorry you had this experience.

Although our Basic plan includes an SLA response time of 12 hours, waiting for a response for 48 hours from our ticket system should not have been the case.

Could you provide us with the email address associated with your account and your invoice number so we can investigate this further?

Please reach out to us at feedback@sucuri.net if you can.

--- Sucuri (AS)

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Sucuri product good customer support sucks

It is a DIY service. Migrated from Cloudflare since their DDOS protection wasn't working.

Sucuri did work fine however asked 3 support queries. Only one of them have been answered in over 48 hours.

You get 1 reply in 24 hours and that too generic like we are checking the issue.

If you ever get malware etc go somewhere else for the service.

At the moment we only use DDOS protection and firewall part. It seems to work fine. Do note this is a do it yourself service right now more or less with no to little help you will get from these guys.

March 4, 2021
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars

I wish I had read the reviews, but they fixed the issue eventually

I wish I had read the reviews before signing up to their service. The customer support does "NOT" have a guaranteed response time unless you pay extra but even still you would expect a reply within 24 hours from most companies...not Sucuri (1 Star)

Additional: Finally after 2 days and two other support reps had said they would get back to me I finally got a good egg on Sucuri's support and after speaking with this particular rep everything is working as it should be now.

I just feel like their set up needs to be a lot more fluent and easier for the average user to set up. The issue was one thing hadn't been set up on their end which was causing an issue.

January 18, 2021
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

The worst and slowest

Before you paid for the annual fee, their response is fast.
After you paid, the service is slow and the Customer Service is rude and irresponsible.
The is the most disappointed, expensive and irresponsible service provider that I have ever seen, don’t pay

WordPress team please remove from the store

December 12, 2020
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Really bad support and useless service

I’m a real estate agent in Toronto and I use a lot of services for my business, including some legacy software and never have I ever had such a horrible experience with a service provider until Sucuri. I’ve had my website flagged and taken down because of malware on Saturday. 3 hours later, as recommended to me by my hosting provider, I signed up for Sucuri with the sole purpose of getting my website cleaned. Having it done asap was imperative because every day I have prospects visiting my website and if I lose even 1 prospect, that’s tens of thousands of dollars in commission. So before signing up for their service, I chatted with their rep on the website. He said that it’s hard to give a timeline but most malware issues get resolved within 24-48 hours. So I signed up. On Monday, at 2am my time, a support rep got back to me and informed me that they can’t login to the website and they asked that I create a connection for them. Their instructions were so limited, I had to reach out to their rep on the chat to clarify and then sent them the info they asked for. It took the same support rep till the next morning (at 1am) to get back to me and tell me that the connection I set up is wrong and provided 0 guidance on how to fix that. I’m sure it’s going to take them another day to get back to me. So the main reasons I would advise against using: terrible support (chat option is only on the website some of the time; response via email or account takes 24-hours; poor communication when it comes to instructions, considering that some of their clients are not technical people like me). Tomorrow will be day 5 since I’ve requested to clean my website. If they don’t fix it tomorrow, I’m going to sign up for Astra; I’ll be double-paying but at least maybe they’ll be able to fix the issue.

November 17, 2020
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

SSLs do not auto renew and there's no warning = sites offline!!

Sucuri is not cheap - part of the service is an SSL certificate. Be warned - 75% of the time they do NOT auto renew. What happens then? Your website becomes inaccessible and goes offline. But surely there's some sort of notification to warn you or warn the Sucuri Support internally you may ask? Well no there's not. The only time you'll realise this has happened is if you're lucky enough for a customer to let you know or you're regularly checking your website every day to see if it's become unsecured. If like me you value your time and don't do this or wish to pay additional for an uptime monitor (which Sucuri is supposed to do with the firewall anyway), then your website (or your client's websites) will go offline for potentially months. The effect of this on a high traffic site is severe - it can cost thousands in lost traffic and rankings on Google. When it goes offline, you have to submit a ticket for them to manually renew which in our experience can be at least 24 hours longer with your site offline. When questioning support about this, even the support rep agreed it's ridiculous and that this shouldn't be happening.

Strangely enough this has happened since Godaddy has taken over, no surprise the service has gone downhill since then.

Avoid using Sucuri and find an alternative who value your website actually being online!!

October 26, 2020
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