If you see a significant increase in the traffic to your site and in case after you look into the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from locations around the world or from other servers, your Internet site is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Those programs go through random sites looking to log in to their administrator area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments beneath any sort of article where this type of an option is offered. However, that's something quite popular in recent times, 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 Internet site in any way. Naturally, you are able to block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your Internet site.
IP Blocking in Web Hosting
If you purchase a web hosting plan from us, you will be able to see in depth traffic stats for all of your sites and if you notice that many of the visits to each of them are not legit, you'll be able to block the IP addresses that have produced the most traffic by using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is incredibly simple - select the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then enter the IP address you want to block and save the change. All the addresses which you have blacklisted will appear inside the same section of the Control Panel, so you're able to always remove any one of them and permit it to access your Internet site again. You'll be able to block whole IP ranges using the tool too - you just have to leave one or two 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
Our semi-dedicated server accounts include a rather simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that'll permit you to restrict individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your Internet sites with simplya few clicks and you will not have any difficulties to do that even if that is your first hosting account. As soon as you navigate to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you'll only have to select the domain or subdomain you want from a drop-down list, then input the IP address in a box that you will see there and you will be ready. To restrict the access for an entire network, you need to leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you type 123.123. and do not input anything inside the third and fourth positions, our web server shall deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.