In case you notice a considerable increase in the traffic to your Internet site and in case after you look into the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from places all over the world or from other web servers, your Internet site is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. These pieces of software go through random Internet sites seeking to log in to their administrator area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments beneath any article where this kind of an option is made available. Regrettably, that's something relatively popular lately, 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. Needless to say, you'll be able to block IPs even if you allow only people from particular countries to access your website.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

If you purchase a Linux shared hosting service from our company, you will be able to see detailed traffic stats for all of your sites and if you notice that a considerable amount of the visits to any of them are not real, you'll be able to block the IP addresses which have created the most traffic by using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is really simple - pick the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then enter the IP address that you want to block and save the change. All the addresses that you've blacklisted will show up in the exact same section of the CP, allowing you to always remove any one of them and permit it to access your website again. You can block entire IP ranges using the tool as well - you simply need to leave one or two 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

You shall be able to block IP addresses without difficulty and stop the unwanted traffic to any Internet site hosted within a semi-dedicated server account with us, considering the fact that we provide a very easy-to-use tool to do that, that is our Hepsia hosting CP. Even if you have not addressed this kind of problems in the past, you'll not have any difficulties, as our tool provides a very user-friendly interface. Once you check out the IP blocking section of the Control Panel, you'll find a complete list of all the domains and subdomains that you have added in the Hosted Domains section. All you need to do to block an IP address is choose the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then enter the IP within the box below. The change will take effect right away, so you'll not get any traffic from this address in the future. Taking away an IP from the blocked list is equally quick.