If you see a major increase in the online traffic to your site and if after you look into the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from places across the world or from other web servers, your site is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Those pieces of software go through random Internet sites seeking to log in to their admin area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below any sort of article where this sort of an option is provided. The fact is that, that's something relatively popular 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 site in any way. Certainly, you can block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your website.

IP Blocking in Cloud Website Hosting

If you have a cloud website hosting account with us and you wish to block one or a few IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, that is included in our in-house built Hepsia CP. Using a pretty simple interface, you are able to prevent any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it takes to perform that is to log in to your CP, to visit the IP Blocking section, to pick a certain domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You shall not have to do anything challenging if you want to block an entire network - you'll simply have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot shall block the whole range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed in the same section, so you'll be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with just a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You will be able to block IP addresses with ease and stop the unwanted traffic to any Internet site hosted inside a semi-dedicated server account with our company, because we offer you a really easy-to-use tool to do that, that is offered with our Hepsia hosting CP. Even if you have never addressed this sort of problems in the past, you shall not have any difficulties, as our tool has a very user-friendly interface. When you navigate to the IP blocking section of the CP, you shall find a full list of all the domains and subdomains that you've added in the Hosted Domains section. All you need to do to block an IP address is choose the desired domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and type the IP inside the box below. The change shall take effect straightaway, so you'll not get any traffic from this address in the future. Removing an IP from the blocked list is equally quick.