In case you notice a significant increase in the online traffic to your website and in case after you look at the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from locations around the world or from other web servers, your website is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. Such pieces of software go through random websites aiming to log in to their admin area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments underneath every article where this sort of an option is available. Unfortunately, this is something relatively common lately, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you can block them, so the bots shall not be able to access your Internet site in any way. Certainly, you may block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your website.
IP Blocking in Shared Website Hosting
Our IP Blocking tool is included with the innovative Hepsia hosting Control Panel, offered with all shared website hosting accounts. It'll allow you to block addresses with simply a few clicks. No coding skills are required, since you will use an intuitive interface - you just need to choose a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type the IP address that you would like to be blocked. You shall be able to see all the IP addresses that you've added within the very same section and whitelisting each of them shall take simply a mouse click. If you notice that your site is being flooded by different IPs, you'll be able to block an entire IP range as well. This can be done by omitting the last number of the address. For instance, 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'll be able to block IP addresses without difficulty and stop the unwanted traffic to any website hosted in a semi-dedicated server account with us, considering the fact that we offer a very easy-to-use tool to do that, that is part of our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Even if you have not tackled this sort of problems in the past, you'll not have any difficulties, as our tool provides a very user-friendly interface. As soon as you navigate to the IP blocking section of the Control Panel, you shall find a complete list of all the domains and subdomains which you have added within the Hosted Domains section. All you should do to block an IP address is pick the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and input the IP within the box below. The change shall take effect immediately, so you will not get any traffic from this address in the future. Taking away an IP from the blocked list is just as uncomplicated.