If you notice a big increase in the online traffic to your website and in case after you check the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from locations all over the world or from other servers, your site is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Those programs go through random websites looking to log in to their administrator area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under any sort of article where this type of an option is provided. However, that is something rather frequent in recent times, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you could block them, so the bots will be unable to access your site in any way. Obviously, you may block IPs even if you allow only people from particular countries to access your Internet site.
IP Blocking in Website Hosting
Our IP Blocking tool is part of the ground breaking Hepsia hosting Control Panel, provided with all website hosting accounts. It shall enable you to block addresses with only a few mouse clicks. No coding skills are needed, as you'll use an intuitive interface - you just need to choose a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and input the IP address that you would like to be blocked. You will be able to see all the IP addresses you have added in the exact same section and whitelisting each of them shall take simply a click. If you notice your website is being flooded by numerous IPs, you will be able to block an entire IP range too. This could be done by omitting the last number of the address. For example, if you need to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you simply need to type in 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
You will be able to block IP addresses without difficulty and stop the undesirable traffic to any Internet site hosted inside a semi-dedicated server account with our company, considering the fact that we provide a really easy-to-use tool to do that, that's provided with our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Even if you haven't addressed this sort of matters in the past, you won't have any difficulties, because our tool features a very user-friendly interface. As you visit the IP blocking section of the CP, you'll find a full list of all the domains and subdomains which you have added within the Hosted Domains section. All you have to do to block an IP address is pick the desired domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and type the IP in the box below. The change will take effect instantly, so you'll not get any traffic from this address in the future. Removing an IP from the blocked list is equally quick.