In case you notice a considerable increase in the online traffic to your Internet site and in case after you check the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from locations around the world or from other web servers, your Internet site is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. These pieces of software go through random websites seeking to log in to their administration area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below any article where such an option is provided. Unfortunately, this is something quite frequent nowadays, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you can block them, so the bots won't be able to access your website in any way. Of course, you may block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your website.

IP Blocking in Cloud Website Hosting

If you purchase a Linux cloud website hosting from our company, you will be able to see comprehensive traffic statistics for all your Internet sites and if you notice that a lot of the visits to each of them are not legit, you could block the IP addresses which have produced the most traffic through our IP Blocking tool. The interface is very simple - choose the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then enter the IP address that you would like to block and save the change. All the addresses that you have blacklisted will appear inside the same section of the CP, so you're able to always remove any one of them and enable it to access your Internet site again. You are able to block whole IP ranges using the tool too - you just have to leave 1 or 2 octets from the address blank. For 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

If you host your Internet sites within a semi-dedicated server account with us and you wish to block one or a number of IP addresses sooner or later, you could benefit from the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we've included in our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With several mouse clicks, you will be able to block particular IPs or whole ranges, if needed. All you will need to do is select any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, choose if the blocking needs to be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that's part of the Internet site, and then type the IP address that you would like to block. For an IP range, you just have to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address based on the size of the network that you want to block. All of the addresses which you have restricted shall be listed in the same exact section and if you wish to whitelist any of them, you'll be able to do it with just a mouse click whenever you want.