If you see a large increase in the online traffic to your site and in case after you look at the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from countries across the world or from other servers, your Internet site is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. Such programs go through random sites looking to log in to their administration area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments beneath every article where such an option is made available. The fact is that, that's something relatively common nowadays, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you can block them, so the bots will not be able to access your Internet site in any way. Naturally, you may block IPs even if you allow only people from particular countries to access your Internet site.
IP Blocking in Hosting
Our Linux hosting service offer an IP blocking tool, so in case you'd like to restrict the access to your Internet sites, it shall be able to do this with only several clicks. The tool is provided with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all accounts and that's a breeze to use. When you log in and go to the IP blocking section, you will just need to choose a domain or a subdomain hosted in the account and type the IP address that needs to be blocked. Our system will enable you to block whole networks as well, so if you enter 123.123.123., for example, this shall block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your sites. In case you wish to whitelist an IP at some point, you'll be able to unblock it with simply a mouse click from the same section.
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia hosting CP, included with our semi-dedicated servers, will enable you to solve the matter with unwanted traffic very efficiently. It features an IP blocking tool where you could add IP addresses with just a few clicks. All domains and subdomains you have in the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only have to choose the one you need and then input the IP address that has to be blocked. If you want to block an entire range, a C-class network for example, you simply need to type the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. This shall block all 254 addresses, so you shall not need to type them manually. Since all the IPs you add in this section will be listed, you may easily unblock any of them by clicking the Delete button related to the particular IP.