If you see a major increase in the online traffic to your Internet site and in case after you look into the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from places around the world or from other servers, your website is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Those programs go through random sites seeking to log in to their administration area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments beneath any sort of article where this sort of an option is provided. Regrettably, that's something rather common 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 site in any way. Certainly, you can block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your website.

IP Blocking in Shared Web Hosting

If you order a Linux shared web hosting service from our company, you shall be able to see detailed traffic statistics for all of your Internet sites and if you notice that a considerable amount of the visits to each of them aren't real, you can block the IP addresses which have created the most traffic using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is extremely simple - select the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then input the IP address you want to block and save the change. All of the addresses that you've blacklisted will appear in the exact same section of the Control Panel, allowing you 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. 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

If you host your websites inside a semi-dedicated server account with us and you would like to block one or several IP addresses eventually, you'll be able to use the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we have provided with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With simply a couple of mouse clicks, you'll be able to block individual IPs or whole ranges, if necessary. All you'll need to do is choose any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, decide if the blocking should be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that is part of the Internet site, and then input the IP address that you'd like to block. For an IP range, you only have to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address depending on the size of the network that you want to block. Each of the addresses that you've restricted will be listed inside the very same section and if you wish to whitelist any of them, you will be able to do it with only a click whenever you want.