If you see a major increase in the online traffic to your site and if after you check the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from areas around the world or from other web servers, your website is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. These programs go through random Internet sites attempting to log in to their administration area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments beneath any article where this sort of an option is made available. Regrettably, that's something quite popular lately, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you'll be able to block them, so the bots will be unable to access your website in any way. Naturally, you are able to block IPs even if you allow only people from particular countries to access your Internet site.
IP Blocking in Cloud Website Hosting
If you have a cloud website hosting account with our company and you want to block one or a number of IP addresses, you may use the IP Blocking tool, that's incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. Using a rather simple interface, you'll be able to restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it takes to complete this is to log in to your Control Panel, to go to the IP Blocking section, to pick a specific domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to type in the IP address. You shall not have to do anything complex if you'd like to block an entire network - you will just have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot will block the whole range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed in the exact same section, so you'll be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with a mouse click.
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You will be able to block IP addresses without difficulty and stop the undesirable traffic to any site hosted within a semi-dedicated server account with our company, because we provide a rather easy-to-use tool to do that, that's included with our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Even if you haven't dealt with such matters in the past, you will not have any difficulties, considering that our tool includes a very user-friendly interface. As you navigate to the IP blocking section of the Control Panel, you'll find a comprehensive list of all the domains and subdomains you have added within 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 straightaway, so you'll not get any traffic from this address in the future. Taking away an IP from the blocked list is just as easy.