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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

Their support sucks

Their support sucks. No response for 14 hours. It's hard to believe people in security business won't respond for that long. It's my day one with them and I am getting my refund.

November 8, 2019
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Reply from Sucuri Security

Hi there,

We regret any inconvenience, but encourage you to understand that more complex malware removal can cause delays. Many times our malware analysts can’t reply to messages during the process because they're focused on the integrity of the cleanup. We are working on ways to keep customers more informed during the cleanup process.

Hope this clears things up a bit.

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I can not understand the bad reviews…

I can not understand the bad reviews here. I have only the best experience with them. They removed a virus from our server and gave outstanding support. I dont know what I would have done without them.
You need some kind of basic understanding of technical topics to communicate with them. But if you run a professional buisiness you should use their service to scan your server and keep it clean from any threat.
I can only fully recommend them.

October 25, 2019
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars

ONLY FOR PROS

3 days after I wrote the below review, I have to change it. Sucuri has refunded the money. I have to admit this has been a surprise.

So, Sucuri is probably a very good service, but my advise would be: do not perform a site check until you know the service is usefull for you.

Original Review.:

I bought it yesterday. It was super difficult to understand what was going on. I'm not an expert but I'm not either an amateur, and honestly, I felt like an i.... Too complicated, too many unexplained things being asked...

But the best part comes now. I tried to cancel my subscription and... surprise: I had no right for a refund since I had already performed a site check and apparently some malware removal took place. Well, first of all, it's very hidden in all the legal documents that you loose your right for a refund if you have malware removed (I kind of understand it anyway).. but that's the very first thing they suggest you to do (a site check), so they know no one is elegible for a refund bc they always start by a site check (and there's always some kind of removal as you´ll see below)

Secondly, what they removed from my site was only scam comments, nothing serious or complicated. My 178 € have been stolen as the 30 day money back guarantee has a trick.

I have contacted VISA and I'll see what's the result of this.

BTW, I bought Wordfence Premium right after I cancel Sucuri, and it was smooth, easy, understandable... and cheaper!

July 12, 2019
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Reply from Sucuri Security

Hi Pedro,

We regret the confusion. Nobody should feel taken advantage of.

Please understand the difference between malware scanning and malware removal. When you scan your site, our scanner lets you know if there are signs of a hack. When you submit a malware removal request, there’s an agreement to pay for services rendered — it’s not an automated process.

You noted feeling bad about the confusion. Please don’t. We understand you are working hard to succeed online. We wish you all the best, even if we aren’t the right fit for your needs. You can always reach us at feedback@sucuri.net.

Hope this clears things up a bit.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

They have TERRIBLE CUSTOMER SUPPORT

They have TERRIBLE CUSTOMER SUPPORT. I PUT IN A NEW MALWARE REMOVAL TICKET ON 6/28/19 AND TODAY 7/1/19 I get an email that Gabriel B. cannot login to my ftp. I immediately create a new ftp login info and ask him to please try to login right away to see if the new login works. I GOT NO RESPONSE FROM GABRIEL. B. I contacted chat support about this ticket and I was told by the chat support person that my ticket number: 15618496712028

was escalated and I should hear soon. This was early this morning and it it 1:53pm and I still have not heard from anyone. I then sent an email to sucuri to let them know that nobody is working on my ticket. I still don't have a response. Then, I just sent an email to the owner founder of sucuri who is Daniel Cid. I sent it to his direct email. I still have not receive a response. I asked Daniel to have someone work on my ticket right away since I put this request since 6/28/19. I told him that I need this resolved 7/1/19. If I don't hear from him or from sucuri I I will see if I can get partial credit back since they are not providing the service that I pre-paid them to do. I guess that is why they required a full year pre-payment since they know they provide bad service and want to get the full money in advance so they don't have to provide any service after they receive payment. Buyer beware! Don't bother to sign up for service since nobody will help you after you paid. I wish I would have done some research and read all their bad reviews before I signed up for their service.

July 1, 2019
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Happy customer!

The daily scan by my hosting provider showed that there was malware in the URLs of my website. I have assisted hosting, but they quickly escalated and advised that I would contact Sucuri to get my website cleaned. I did think that it was quite pricey but had little choice as my customers were rerouted to other websites. I quite quickly got a message that my website was being escalated to a senior team member and then I didn't hear anything for several hours. I was very concerned and contacted sales again. In the meantime I had read the very bad reviews which Sucuri gets on here, so I was worried that I had wasted my money and nothing was being done. The sales person told me that on the contract option I had chosen (cheapest option, still expensive though), my website would be dealt with within 12 hours as per contract terms. This worried me even more as my visitors and customers were routed away from my website. Luckily enough this all turned out to be different, Sucuri was already cleaning my website and not long after I got the message that the problems had been resolved and my website was clean and a firewall was put in place. So I am a happy customer. They fixed the problem in about 4 hours. Yes, they are expensive, but they did it and that is most important, plus I now have additional safety features.

May 21, 2019
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Reply from Sucuri Security

Hey Nienke!
Thank you for providing your feedback and thank you for your business. If there is anything else we can do to help, don't hesitate to reach out at info@sucuri.net

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I would highly recommend Sucuri

Sucuri are great, the features it offers are really awesome and it offers a great deal of them... SSL, geo blocking, ip/user agent white and blacklisting, CDN, real time observations and loads more... all for $9.99/month... unbelievable value.

Previously I had 1 issue which was difficult to resolve and the response time from Sucuri was delayed, but since that i've contacted support a number of times and they have been prompt, courteous and extremely helpful, even taking time out to log in to my server and setup the firewall correctly as it was past my technical ability.

I would highly recommend Sucuri

May 6, 2019
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Reply from Sucuri Security

Dear Howarth Tori,
listening to customer feedback is always a very constructive experience, as we learn more about your expectations and needs.
Thanks for sharing this experience here and hopefully our growing team of security analysts will make it that less time is spent on servicing issues like yours, for a lower customer expecting time.
Thanks again!

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Very negative experience

Very negative experience. Ok this is only my experience and not a judgement. I subscribed to Sucuri after my company’s website was hacked. First of all, being my billing address in Europe, my credit card was debited 22% more than the advertised price due to VAT. That’s ok, but I feel one should be told exactly how much one’s going to pay before paying, and not afterwards. Still, this is not the point. I submitted a ticket, to which I got fake reassuring emails like “I’ve escalated this to a senior analyst and we are working on your case” clearly only an automated message, as it came, 0.5 seconds after I submitted the ticket and it was totally generic, not giving any real info. After that, no sign of life for 3 days, no customer assistance whatsoever, not possible to chat, and definitely my website not restored. After 3 days passed and I had no idea what they were doing, I asked for my money back, and I was given a refund without problems. But we lost 3 days, which are a lot of time for a company, and I can honestly say that Sucuri wasn’t able at all to offer what they advertise. They then wrote to me that “in this period we have 3x normal influx of tickets so our response time is longer than usual”. Thanks, but couldn’t they have warned me about this at the very beginning, to start with? and not after I cancelled my subscription. To cut a long story short: ineffective service, tickets management rather confused, very weak customer support, and this for a high price. Would never recommend it, and I say this in all honesty.

March 25, 2019
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Reply from Sucuri Security

Hi Riccardo,

We regret the delay and do understand the cost of those lost days. It’s why we encourage people in your situation to choose our Business plan, which includes a guaranteed response time.

The experience you described with our emails is concerning, and we have started investigating the issue. You can always reach us at feedback@sucuri.net.

Our team was recently created to address opportunities for improvement in the customer experience, which includes monitoring review sites like this one.

Hope this clears things up a bit.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Don't listen to bad reviews, they are amazing!!!

I have to say I am very surprised with a lot of the reviews I read here. I don't often write these kind of reviews but here I feel I have to because they have been super helpful with me!

My blog got infected with malware and was shut down by my hosting platform so I started looking for Website Security services and came across Sucuri. I was a bit unsure about subscribing for a plan with then as it is quite expensive (200 USD / year), so I started reading online reviews. I almost didn't go for it after reading the reviews on this website but couldn't find a better alternative so went for it anyway. And honestly, they have been AMAZING!

Less than 4 hours after subscribing for the service someone was already working on my website and a couple of hours later it was back up and running!! 5 days later my website got infected again (probably because I didn't follow their post-cleaning advice), and in a couple of hours they managed to fix it again. Now they are even helping me with installing a website firewall to prevent this from happening again.

They always answer immediately and are super nice! I'm very happy I didn't listen to the other bad reviews and I would highly recommend them!

February 5, 2019
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Reply from Sucuri Security

Hi Camille,
thank you very much for your feedback!

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Bad - Unacceptable Experience

Support is not 365/7/24 as advertised.
They advertise a 30 day unconditional refund if you are unhappy and want to cancel - whey you pay you tick the terms and conditions and lose that.
The advertised Instant chat is in reality only from 14.00 to 01.00 in the UK (they work daytime working hours Standard Pacific time only).
Chat is with not with the technical staff you need to solve the problem.

The adverts give a rosy picture of the service offered, wonderful reviews here on Trustpilot, and on their website, but if you are silly enough to pay for their service then more fool you.

December 5, 2018
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Stay away

Uses forever to answer support tickets. Do not cleanup as the should. i spent 4 days trying to get them to clean my site. Ended up with a backup solution. Do not buy this crap!

October 9, 2018
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Reply from Sucuri Security

Hi Vegårshei,

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

We’re a team that was recently created to address opportunities for improvement in the customer experience, which includes monitoring review sites like this one.

Hope this clears things up a bit.

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Not Happy With This Company

I contracted to have my new website done in early 2019. Ever since, I've been bombarded with non-stop, numerous emails every single day, from them saying my website is under "Brute Force Attack". I finally called the company that constructed my website and was told Sucuri has nothing to do with them. One of the solutions Surcuri gives in their "Alert" emails is to purchase a firewall from them. I already have a firewall. Frankly I think by bombarding me with these "Alert" emails they're trying to scare me into thinking my website is being hacked so I'll buy a firewall from them. Just wish they'd stop.

September 20, 2018
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Reply from Sucuri Security

Hi Karen,

We regret to hear your experience with our plugin was less than ideal. Nobody should feel pushed into making an important purchase.

It was a wise decision to put your site behind a firewall. That’s why our plugin makes this recommendation (maybe a little too often for your tastes).

While it’s not the safest move, you can always filter emails from our plugin into a folder to review at your convenience — or disable them completely. Here’s a free guide to help you with that: https://docs.sucuri.net/plugins/plugin-email-alerts/

Hope this clears things up a bit.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Sucuri is a must for all websites

Thanks to Daniel and everyone else at Sucuri for all your help in getting our website up and running. We are a B2B service company and depend heavily on our site for lead generation and for introducing our business to potential clients. So any time its not working is always problematic. Sucuri always come through any time there is a problem and I feel every company that has a website should sign up for their service.

July 16, 2018
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Horrible plugin

Horrible plugin, rude author, and sold out to GoDaddy and since has been a completely worthless plugin.

February 16, 2018
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Reply from Sucuri Security

Hi Jessica,

We regret to hear your experience with our plugin was less than ideal. However, we’re always grateful for feedback that could lead to improvements.

Please understand that we are a global team distributed around the world. If a reply to your inquiry seemed rude, it very well could be the author speaks English as a second language. (Sometimes, things get lost in translation.)

Hope this clears things up a bit.

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I don't really know what to say!

I don't really know what to say!

Twice tried to reach them out. Every time they closed the chat on my face. Sent them a sale inquiry email, they didn't reply yet (its 5 days since then)

How can you trust when they don't even reply?

January 6, 2018
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Reply from Sucuri Security

Hi Arta,

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

It sounds like a technical issue, possibly with your browser or our chat system. We’re looking into it. With the emails, our policy is to reply within 24 hours to emails to our sales team. That’s also something we’ll investigate.

We’re a team that was recently created to address opportunities for improvement in the customer experience, which includes monitoring review sites like this one.

Hope this clears things up a bit.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great Product to remove malware

In the past, one of my domain infected with malware then I called Godaddy to handle situation.

At that time I can remember, they had highly recommended me to use Sucuri to remove malware. I did according them suggestions and used Sucuri.

Later my website came back as normal. All the junks had been deleted by Sucuri. So I would recommend you to use Sucuri for malware remove.

July 27, 2017
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars

good but

good but, I have a lot issue! cannot remove domain, there say my domain still pointing to sucuri server bla bla..
sucuri WAF. actually my domain is already pointing to another IP for 1 day, and sucuri still displayed old cloudflare IP

April 2, 2017
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Reply from Sucuri Security

Hi there,

We regret any inconvenience. Nobody should feel uncertain about their website security.

Please understand that the delay in DNS propagation ensures that your site remains available during the switch. This is a deliberate measure and entirely for your protection.

Hope this clears things up a bit.

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