If you see a big increase in the traffic to your site and if after you check the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from areas all over the world or from other servers, your Internet site is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. These programs go through random Internet sites trying to log in to their administrator area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments underneath every article where this sort of an option is available. Regrettably, this is something rather common these days, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you'll be able to block them, so the bots will not be able to access your website in any way. Obviously, you may block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your site.

IP Blocking in Shared Website Hosting

If you buy a shared website hosting from our company, you'll be able to see detailed traffic statistics for all of your Internet sites and if you notice that a considerable amount of the visits to any of them are not authentic, you are able to block the IP addresses which have generated the most traffic through our IP Blocking tool. The interface is extremely simple - pick 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 you have blacklisted shall appear in the exact same section of the CP, so you can always remove any of them and permit it to access your website again. You'll be able to block whole IP ranges using the tool as well - you just need to leave one or two 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

You will be able to block IP addresses without difficulty and stop the unwelcome traffic to any Internet site hosted inside a semi-dedicated server account with our company, as we offer you a very easy-to-use tool to do that, that is our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Even if you have not tackled this kind of problems in the past, you will not have any difficulties, because our tool has a very user-friendly interface. When you check out the IP blocking section of the Control Panel, you shall find a full list of all the domains and subdomains that you've added in the Hosted Domains section. All you have to do to block an IP address is select the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and type in the IP in the box below. The change shall take effect instantly, so you will not get any traffic from this address in the future. Taking away an IP from the blocked list is equally quick.