In case you notice a considerable increase in the online traffic to your website and if after you look into the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from countries across the world or from other web servers, your website is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. These programs go through random Internet sites looking to log in to their administration area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under every article where this sort of an option is available. The fact is that, that is something rather popular in recent times, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you may block them, so the bots shall not be able to access your website in any way. Certainly, you'll be able to block IPs even if you allow only people from particular countries to access your site.
IP Blocking in Cloud Web Hosting
Our IP Blocking tool is part of the innovative Hepsia hosting Control Panel, provided with all cloud web hosting accounts. It will permit you to block addresses with simply several clicks. No coding skills are necessary, as you'll use an intuitive interface - you just have to pick a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and enter the IP address that you'd like to be blocked. You shall be able to see all the IP addresses that you have added within the very same section and whitelisting each of them shall take simply a mouse click. If you notice your site is being flooded by numerous IPs, you will be able to block an entire IP range as well. This could be completed by omitting the last number of the address. For example, if you wish to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you basically need to type in 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
You shall be able to block IP addresses without difficulty and stop the undesirable traffic to any website hosted inside a semi-dedicated server account with us, since we offer a really easy-to-use tool to do that, that is our Hepsia hosting CP. Even if you haven't dealt with this kind of problems in the past, you'll not have any difficulties, as our tool has a very user-friendly interface. As you navigate to the IP blocking section of the CP, you will find a complete list of all the domains and subdomains you have added within the Hosted Domains section. All you have to do to block an IP address is choose the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and type in the IP inside the box below. The change shall take effect right away, so you will not get any traffic from this address in the future. Removing an IP from the blocked list is equally quick.