If you notice a considerable increase in the traffic to your site and in case after you look at the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from areas across the world or from other servers, your Internet site is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. Such pieces of software go through random sites seeking to log in to their admin area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under any sort of article where this type of an option is available. However, that is something rather common nowadays, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you could block them, so the bots will be unable to access your site in any way. Naturally, you may block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your Internet site.

IP Blocking in Cloud Web Hosting

If you buy a Linux cloud web hosting service from our company, you'll be able to see detailed traffic statistics for all your Internet sites and if you notice that a considerable amount of the visits to any of them aren't legitimate, you could block the IP addresses that have produced the most traffic by using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is really simple - choose 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 have blacklisted shall appear in the same exact section of the Control Panel, allowing you to always remove any of them and permit it to access your Internet site again. You could block whole IP ranges through the tool also - you just need to leave one or two 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 Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, provided with our semi-dedicated hosting, will enable you to solve the problem with unwanted traffic very easily. It comes with an IP blocking tool where you can add IP addresses with just a few mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains that you have inside the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only have to select the one you need and then enter 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 three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. This shall block all 254 addresses, so you shall not have to type them manually. Considering that all the IPs you include in this section shall be listed, you can very easily unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button relevant to the particular IP.