If you notice a large increase in the online traffic to your Internet site and in case after you look at the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from areas around the world or from other web servers, your site is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. These pieces of software go through random websites attempting to log in to their admin area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below any sort of article where this type of an option is provided. Unfortunately, this is something rather common in recent times, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you may block them, so the bots will be unable to access your website in any way. Needless to say, you can block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your site.
IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting
If you purchase a cloud plan from our company, you shall be able to see comprehensive traffic statistics for all of your sites and if you notice that a considerable amount of the visits to each of them are not authentic, you can block the IP addresses that have created the most traffic using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is incredibly simple - choose the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then type in the IP address that you would like to block and save the change. All the addresses which you have blacklisted will appear inside the same exact section of the CP, so you can always remove any one of them and permit it to access your website again. You could block whole IP ranges using the tool too - you simply need 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 Servers
If you host your websites within a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you need to block one or a number of IP addresses eventually, you'll be able to use the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we have supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With a couple of mouse clicks, you will be able to block particular IPs or whole ranges, if necessary. All you shall have to do is pick out any one 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 which is part of the site, and then enter the IP address you want 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 you want to block. All of the addresses that you've restricted will be listed inside the very same section and if you want to whitelist any one of them, you shall be able to do it with just a mouse click anytime.