If you notice a considerable increase in the online traffic to your website and in case after you look at the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from locations across the world or from other web servers, your website is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. These pieces of software go through random Internet sites trying to log in to their administrator area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments beneath any article where this kind of an option is made available. Unfortunately, this is something rather frequent these days, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you may block them, so the bots won't be able to access your website in any way. Obviously, you are able to block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your Internet site.
IP Blocking in Cloud Web Hosting
If you get a cloud web hosting from our company, you shall be able to see detailed traffic statistics for all your sites and if you notice that a lot of the visits to any of them are not legit, you are able to block the IP addresses which have generated the most traffic by using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is quite simple - choose the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then enter the IP address that you want to block and save the change. All the addresses that you have blacklisted shall appear inside the exact same section of the CP, so you're able to always remove any of them and permit it to access your Internet site again. You could block whole IP ranges using the tool also - you just have to leave 1 or 2 octets from the address blank. For example, 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
Our semi-dedicated server accounts come with a very simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will allow you to prohibit individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your Internet sites with no more thana few mouse clicks and you shall not have any difficulties to achieve that even if this is your first web hosting account. As soon as you navigate to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia CP, you will just have to select the domain or subdomain you want from a drop-down list, then type in the IP address in a box which you'll see there and you will be ready. To restrict the access for an entire network, you will need to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you type 123.123. and don't type in anything in the third and fourth positions, our hosting server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.