If you notice a significant increase in the traffic to your website and if after you examine the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from places all over the world or from other servers, your website is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Those programs go through random Internet sites looking to log in to their administration area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under every article where this type of an option is provided. However, that's something quite popular lately, 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. Naturally, you are able to block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your website.
IP Blocking in Web Hosting
If you buy a Linux web hosting from our company, you shall be able to see detailed traffic stats for all of your sites and if you notice that many of the visits to any of them aren't authentic, you could block the IP addresses that have produced the most traffic by using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is very simple - select the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then type the IP address that you would like to block and save the change. All the addresses that you've blacklisted shall appear inside the very same section of the Control Panel, so that you can always remove any one of them and enable it to access your Internet site again. You are able to block whole IP ranges through the tool also - you just 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
Our semi-dedicated server accounts include a rather simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that'll allow you to prohibit individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your sites with onlya few clicks and you shall not have any issues to do that even if that's your first hosting account. Once you go to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia CP, you will simply have to pick the domain or subdomain in question from a drop-down list, then type the IP address within a box that you'll see there and you will be all set. To restrict the access for a whole network, you have to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you type in 123.123. and do not type anything within 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.