If you see a big increase in the traffic to your website and if after you examine the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from places around the world or from other web servers, your website is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. These programs go through random Internet sites looking to log in to their administrator area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below every article where this sort of an option is offered. However, this is something rather frequent in recent times, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you'll be able to block them, so the bots won't be able to access your site in any way. Of course, you may block IPs even if you allow only people from particular countries to access your Internet site.
IP Blocking in Cloud Website Hosting
Our cloud website hosting packages include an IP blocking tool, so if you'd like to limit the access to your websites, you'll be able to do this with just a few clicks. The tool is provided with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all accounts and which is a breeze to use. As you log in and navigate to the IP blocking section, you'll just need to pick a domain or a subdomain hosted in the account and type the IP address which needs to be blocked. Our system will permit you to block entire networks too, so if you input 123.123.123., for example, this'll block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your sites. If you want to whitelist an IP at some point, you could unblock it with simply a click from the same section.
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with our Linux semi-dedicated hosting packages, will allow you to solve the matter with unwanted traffic very efficiently. It includes an IP blocking tool where you may add IP addresses with a few clicks. All domains and subdomains which you have inside the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you simply have to choose the one you need and then type the IP address that has to be blocked. If you would like to block a whole range, a C-class network for instance, you just need to type the first 3 octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That shall block all 254 addresses, so you'll not need to input them manually. As all the IPs you include in this section will be listed, you can effortlessly unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button related to the particular IP.