If you see a significant increase in the traffic to your Internet site and in case after you look into the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from locations around the world or from other servers, your site is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. These pieces of software go through random Internet sites looking to log in to their administration area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below any sort of article where such an option is made available. Unfortunately, this is something relatively frequent these days, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you may block them, so the bots will be unable to access your Internet site in any way. Naturally, you may block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your Internet site.

IP Blocking in Website Hosting

If you purchase a Linux website hosting package from us, you'll be able to see comprehensive traffic statistics for all of your sites and if you notice that many of the visits to each of them aren't real, you may block the IP addresses which have produced the most traffic using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is very simple - pick the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then enter the IP address that you want to block and save the change. All the addresses which you have blacklisted will show up in the same exact section of the Control Panel, so you're able to always remove any one of them and enable it to access your website again. You are able to block whole IP ranges via the tool also - you just have 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 Hosting

You will be able to block IP addresses effortlessly and stop the unwelcome traffic to any site hosted within a semi-dedicated server account with us, as we offer you a rather easy-to-use tool to do that, that is offered with our Hepsia hosting CP. Even if you have never dealt with such problems in the past, you shall not have any difficulties, considering that our tool features a very user-friendly interface. Once you visit the IP blocking section of the Control Panel, you'll find a complete list of all the domains and subdomains that you have added within the Hosted Domains section. All you should do to block an IP address is choose the desired domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then type in the IP in the box below. The change shall take effect instantly, so you'll not get any traffic from this address in the future. Taking away an IP from the blocked list is equally easy.