If you notice a big increase in the traffic to your Internet site and if after you look at the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from areas across the globe or from other servers, your website is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. These programs go through random websites seeking to log in to their administration area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under any sort of article where this sort of an option is provided. However, that's something relatively frequent in recent times, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you may block them, so the bots shall not be able to access your website in any way. Obviously, you are able to block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your Internet site.
IP Blocking in Shared Hosting
If you buy a Linux shared hosting from our company, you'll be able to see detailed traffic stats for all of your Internet sites and if you notice that a large amount of the visits to each of them are not authentic, you could block the IP addresses which have generated the most traffic via our IP Blocking tool. The interface is really simple - select the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then type in the IP address that you'd like to block and save the change. All of the addresses which you have blacklisted shall appear in the same section of the CP, so that you can always remove any of them and enable it to access your Internet site again. You are able to block entire IP ranges using the tool as well - you just need 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 Servers
Our semi-dedicated server accounts come with a rather simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will allow you to restrict individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your websites with no more thana few clicks and you won't have any difficulties to achieve that even if that is your first website hosting account. As soon as you go to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia CP, you'll just need to select the domain or subdomain you need from a drop-down list, then type the IP address in a box which you'll see there and you will be ready. To prohibit the access for a whole network, you have to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you type 123.123. and do not type anything in the third and fourth positions, our web server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.