Urgent: how to disable login strike without admincp access

[Hornstar]

I will wait 15 minutes and try again, however I just put up the temp index.php page and tried one last time before waiting another 15 minutes, and this is the message I get:

Wrong username or password. You have used up your failed login quota! Please wait 15 minutes before trying again. Don't forget that the password is case sensitive. Forgotten your password? Click here!


Does that mean my password is wrong that I am entering or that I am locked out or both?



I have gone into phpmyadmin and changed my password through that to ensure I am entering it correctly, just want to ensure after I wait 15 mintues, I wont be getting a wrong password problem, as I do not have any email attached on my account to reset it any other way.


As for the ddos (botnet) attack, I have tried everything including a hardware firewall, I am now behind a proxy which authenticates the traffic before it is allowed to go my server, it is working, but at a cost and slower performance to the network, but it is working at least.

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Well to ensure my password is correct, I am now adding a new email in through phpmyadmin and then will reset it. And then will wait another 15 minutes. But even after that last 15 minutes, I got the same message straight away.