In case you notice a considerable increase in the traffic to your website and if after you look into the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from locations across the globe or from other servers, your website is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. These programs go through random Internet sites attempting to log in to their admin area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below any sort of article where this sort of an option is offered. Regrettably, this is something relatively popular these days, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you can block them, so the bots will be unable to access your Internet site in any way. Of course, you are able to block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your Internet site.
IP Blocking in Shared Hosting
Our IP Blocking tool comes with the innovative Hepsia hosting Control Panel, offered with all shared hosting accounts. It'll permit you to block addresses with only several mouse clicks. No coding skills are required, because you shall use an intuitive interface - you need to simply 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 in the same section and whitelisting any of them will take only a click. If you notice that your site is being flooded by various IPs, you'll be able to block a whole IP range as well. This could be completed by omitting the last number of the address. For example, if you wish to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you just have to type in 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You will be able to block IP addresses without difficulty and stop the undesirable traffic to any website hosted in a semi-dedicated server account with us, considering the fact that we offer you a really easy-to-use tool to do that, that is provided with our Hepsia hosting CP. Even if you have not dealt with this kind of problems in the past, you will not have any difficulties, because our tool includes a very user-friendly interface. As you go to the IP blocking section of the Control Panel, you will find a complete list of all the domains and subdomains that you have added inside 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 input the IP in the box below. The change shall take effect straightaway, so you'll not get any traffic from this address in the future. Taking away an IP from the blocked list is just as easy.