If you see a considerable increase in the traffic to your Internet site and in case after you examine the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from countries around the world or from other servers, your website is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Such pieces of software go through random websites aiming to log in to their administration area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under any sort of article where this sort of an option is made available. Unfortunately, that is something quite frequent nowadays, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you'll be able to block them, so the bots shall not be able to access your site in any way. Certainly, you can block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your Internet site.
IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting
If you order a cloud plan from us, you shall be able to see detailed traffic stats for all of your Internet sites and if you notice that many of the visits to each of them are not legit, you could block the IP addresses that have produced the most traffic via our IP Blocking tool. The interface is quite simple - pick the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then type the IP address that you'd like to block and save the change. All of the addresses that you've blacklisted shall appear in the exact same section of the Control Panel, so you can always remove any one of them and enable it to access your Internet site again. You are able to block entire IP ranges using the tool also - you just need to leave 1 or 2 octets from the address blank. For instance, entering 1.2.3. will block all 254 IPs from 1.2.3.1 to 1.2.3.255.
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
You will be able to block IP addresses effortlessly and stop the unwanted traffic to any site hosted within a semi-dedicated server account with our company, as we offer a very easy-to-use tool to do that, that's provided with our Hepsia hosting CP. Even if you haven't dealt with this kind of matters in the past, you'll not have any difficulties, considering that our tool has a very user-friendly interface. As you visit the IP blocking section of the CP, you shall find a complete list of all the domains and subdomains you have added in the Hosted Domains section. All you have to do to block an IP address is choose the desired domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then input the IP within the box below. The change will take effect right away, so you will not get any traffic from this address in the future. Removing an IP from the blocked list is just as easy.