In case you notice a major increase in the online traffic to your site and in case after you look at the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from places across the world or from other web servers, your website is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. These programs go through random websites looking to log in to their administration area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments underneath any article where such an option is made available. Regrettably, that is something relatively common these days, 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. Naturally, you are able to block IPs even if you allow only people from particular countries to access your site.
IP Blocking in Shared Web Hosting
If you buy a Linux shared web hosting from us, you'll be able to see comprehensive traffic statistics for all your Internet sites and if you notice that many of the visits to any of them aren't real, you can block the IP addresses which have produced the most traffic using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is incredibly simple - pick 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've blacklisted will show up inside the very same section of the CP, so you can always remove any of them and enable it to access your website again. You are able to block entire IP ranges through the tool also - 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 Hosting
If you host your websites inside a semi-dedicated server account with us and you would like to block one or several IP addresses at some point, you may take advantage of the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we have supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With just a few clicks, you will be able to block certain IPs or entire ranges, if needed. All you'll have to do is pick out any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, choose if the blocking must be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder which is part of the site, and then type the IP address that you'd like to block. For an IP range, you just need to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address based on the size of the network which you want to block. Each of the addresses which you have restricted shall be listed in the same exact section and if you would like to whitelist any of them, you will be able to do it with simply a click whenever you want.