If you see a considerable increase in the traffic to your Internet site and in case after you examine the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from places all over the world or from other web servers, your website is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Such pieces of software go through random websites trying to log in to their admin area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under every article where this type of an option is made available. Unfortunately, that is something rather frequent these days, 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. Obviously, you are able to block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your website.
IP Blocking in Hosting
Our Linux hosting packages come with an IP blocking tool, so in case you'd like to restrict the access to your sites, you will be able to do this with simply several clicks. The tool is part of the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all accounts and that is very simple to use. When you log in and navigate to the IP blocking section, you'll just need to select a domain or a subdomain hosted inside the account and type in the IP address which needs to be blocked. Our system allows you to block entire networks also, so if you input 123.123.123., for instance, this'll block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your sites. If you would like to whitelist an IP at some point, you could unblock it with simply a mouse click from the same section.
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, offered with our Linux semi-dedicated hosting packages, will permit you to solve the matter with unwanted traffic very easily and quickly. It includes an IP blocking tool in which you can add IP addresses with a few clicks. All domains and subdomains you have in the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only need to select the one you need and then type the IP address which has to be blocked. If you would like to block a whole range, a C-class network for instance, you just need to type in the first 3 octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That will block all 254 addresses, so you'll not have to enter them by hand. Because all the IPs you include in this section shall be listed, you could effortlessly unblock any of them by clicking the Delete button relevant to the given IP.