In case you notice a considerable increase in the traffic to your Internet site and in case after you examine the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from places all over the world or from other servers, your website is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Those programs go through random websites looking to log in to their administration area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments underneath any article where this type of an option is provided. Regrettably, that is something quite popular lately, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you can block them, so the bots won't be able to access your site in any way. Needless to say, you are able to block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your Internet site.

IP Blocking in Cloud Website Hosting

If you purchase a Linux cloud website hosting from us, you'll be able to see in depth traffic statistics for all of your Internet sites and if you notice that a large amount of the visits to each of them are not real, you can block the IP addresses that have created the most traffic using 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'd like to block and save the change. All the addresses that you've blacklisted will appear in the very 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'll be able to block entire IP ranges through the tool also - you just have to leave 1 or 2 octets from the address blank. For instance, 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

Our semi-dedicated server accounts feature a quite simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that'll enable you to prohibit individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your Internet sites with justseveral mouse clicks and you shall not have any issues to do that even if that is your first website hosting account. When you go to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you will only need to pick the domain or subdomain you need from a drop-down list, then type the IP address in a box that you'll see there and you will be good to go. To restrict the access for an entire network, you'll have to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you type 123.123. and don't type in anything inside the third and fourth positions, our hosting server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.