If you see a major increase in the traffic to your website and if after you look into the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from places across the world or from other servers, your site is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Those pieces of software go through random websites seeking to log in to their administrator area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under any article where this type of an option is available. Unfortunately, this is something relatively common nowadays, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you may block them, so the bots shall not be able to access your site in any way. Needless to say, you'll be able to block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your website.

IP Blocking in Cloud Web Hosting

If you have a cloud web hosting account with our company and you wish to block one or a number of IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, that is integrated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. By using a pretty simple interface, you could restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it takes to do this is to log in to your Control Panel, to navigate to the IP Blocking section, to select a certain domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to type in the IP address. You won't need to do anything challenging if you'd like to block an entire network - you'll simply have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot will block the whole range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed in the same section, so you shall be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

You will be able to block IP addresses effortlessly and stop the unwanted traffic to any website hosted in a semi-dedicated server account with our company, because we provide a really easy-to-use tool to do that, that is provided with our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Even if you haven't dealt with this sort of issues in the past, you shall not have any difficulties, because our tool includes a very user-friendly interface. As you go to the IP blocking section of the CP, you'll find a comprehensive list of all the domains and subdomains that you've added in the Hosted Domains section. All you should do to block an IP address is select the desired domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then enter the IP in the box below. The change shall take effect right away, so you'll not get any traffic from this address in the future. Taking away an IP from the blocked list is just as quick.