In case you notice a considerable increase in the online traffic to your website and in case after you look at the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from countries across the world or from other web servers, your website is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. Such pieces of software go through random sites attempting to log in to their administrator area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments underneath any sort of article where this type of an option is made available. Regrettably, that is something relatively frequent nowadays, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you'll be able to block them, so the bots will not be able to access your website in any way. Naturally, you are able to block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your website.

IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting

If you buy a Linux cloud service from our company, you shall be able to see detailed traffic statistics for all your sites and if you notice that many of the visits to any of them are not authentic, you'll be able to block the IP addresses which have generated the most traffic through our IP Blocking tool. The interface is very simple - choose the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then enter the IP address you want to block and save the change. All the addresses that you have blacklisted will appear inside the same exact section of the CP, so you're able to always remove any of them and enable it to access your website again. You'll be able to block whole IP ranges through the tool too - you just have to leave 1 or 2 octets from the address blank. As an 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 include a very simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that'll permit you to prohibit individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your sites with simplyseveral clicks and you shall not have any problems to achieve that even if that is your first website hosting account. When you visit the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you will only need to select the domain or subdomain in question from a drop-down list, then type in the IP address within a box that you'll see there and you will be good to go. To prohibit the access for an entire network, you need to leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you type 123.123. and do not input anything in the third and fourth positions, our web server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.