If you see a considerable increase in the traffic to your website and if after you examine the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from places across the globe or from other servers, your Internet site is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Those pieces of software go through random sites attempting to log in to their admin area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under any article where this sort of an option is made available. Unfortunately, this is something quite common these days, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you could block them, so the bots will not be able to access your Internet site in any way. Naturally, you may block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your site.

IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting

If you buy a Linux cloud plan from our company, you shall be able to see detailed traffic stats for all your websites and if you notice that a considerable amount of the visits to any of them aren't legit, you could block the IP addresses which have generated the most traffic through our IP Blocking tool. The interface is quite simple - select the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then type the IP address that you would like to block and save the change. All of the addresses that you have blacklisted shall 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 Internet site again. You could block entire IP ranges using the tool too - 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

If you host your Internet sites within a semi-dedicated server account with us and you need to block one or numerous IP addresses sooner or later, you could benefit from the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we have provided with our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With just a couple of mouse clicks, you will be able to block individual IPs or entire ranges, if needed. All you shall have to do is pick out any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, choose if the blocking must be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder which is part of the site, and then enter the IP address you want to block. For an IP range, you simply have to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address with regards to the size of the network which you want to block. Each of the addresses which you have restricted shall be listed in the exact same section and if you want to whitelist any of them, you'll be able to do it with a mouse click anytime.