In case you notice a large increase in the traffic to your site and if after you look into the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from locations around the world or from other web servers, your Internet site is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Those pieces of software go through random Internet sites attempting to log in to their administrator area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments underneath any sort of article where this type of an option is provided. Regrettably, that is something relatively common nowadays, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you can block them, so the bots won't be able to access your Internet site in any way. Needless to say, you'll be able to block IPs even if you allow only people from particular countries to access your site.

IP Blocking in Cloud Website Hosting

If you purchase a Linux cloud website hosting service from us, you'll be able to see comprehensive traffic stats for all your sites and if you notice that a large amount of the visits to any of them are not real, you could block the IP addresses which have created the most traffic by using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is incredibly simple - choose the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then type the IP address that you want to block and save the change. All the addresses which you have blacklisted will appear inside the same section of the Control Panel, so that you can always remove any one of them and enable it to access your website again. You are able to block entire IP ranges using the tool also - you simply need to leave one or two 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 shall be able to block IP addresses easily and stop the unwanted traffic to any website hosted in a semi-dedicated server account with us, considering the fact that we offer a really easy-to-use tool to do that, which is offered with our Hepsia hosting CP. Even if you have never dealt with such issues in the past, you shall not have any difficulties, since our tool has a very user-friendly interface. Once you visit the IP blocking section of the CP, you'll find a complete list of all the domains and subdomains you have added within the Hosted Domains section. What you need to do to block an IP address is choose the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and type in the IP in the box below. The change will take effect immediately, so you will not get any traffic from this address in the future. Taking away an IP from the blocked list is just as easy.