If you see a significant increase in the traffic to your Internet site and if after you examine the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from places across the globe or from other web servers, your website is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Those programs go through random Internet sites trying to log in to their administration area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below any sort of article where this type of an option is made available. Unfortunately, that's something relatively common these days, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you could block them, so the bots won't be able to access your Internet site in any way. Of course, you may block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your Internet site.

IP Blocking in Cloud Web Hosting

If you buy a cloud web hosting from us, you'll be able to see in depth traffic statistics for all of your Internet sites and if you notice that many of the visits to each of them are not legit, you are able to block the IP addresses which have generated the most traffic via our IP Blocking tool. The interface is quite simple - choose the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then input the IP address you want to block and save the change. All of the addresses you have blacklisted shall appear in the same section of the Control Panel, so you're able to always remove any one of them and permit it to access your Internet site again. You could block entire IP ranges through the tool also - you just need to leave one or two 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 rather simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that'll enable you to restrict individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your Internet sites with simplya couple of clicks and you shall not have any problems to achieve that even if that's your first website hosting account. When you go to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia CP, you'll simply have to select the domain or subdomain in question from a drop-down list, then type in the IP address in a box that you will see there and you will be ready. To restrict the access for a whole network, you must leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you type in 123.123. and do not enter anything inside the third and fourth positions, our hosting server shall deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.