If you see a large increase in the traffic to your Internet site and in case after you examine the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from places around the world or from other servers, your site is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Such programs go through random websites attempting to log in to their administration area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below any sort of article where this sort of an option is offered. Unfortunately, that is 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 won't be able to access your website in any way. Certainly, you are able to block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your website.
IP Blocking in Shared Hosting
If you purchase a Linux shared hosting package from our company, you'll be able to see comprehensive traffic stats for all your websites and if you notice that a large amount of the visits to any of them aren't authentic, you could block the IP addresses that have generated the most traffic by using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is incredibly simple - choose the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then enter the IP address that you'd like to block and save the change. All of the addresses that you've blacklisted will show up in the same exact section of the CP, so you're able to always remove any one of them and enable it to access your Internet site again. You can block whole IP ranges via the tool also - you simply need to leave one or two octets from the address blank. As an example, 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
If you host your sites inside a semi-dedicated server account with us and you wish to block one or a few IP addresses sooner or later, you may benefit from the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we've provided with our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With simply a few mouse clicks, you will be able to block certain IPs or whole ranges, if necessary. All you'll have to do is choose any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, select if the blocking needs to be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that's part of the site, and then type in the IP address you want to block. For an IP range, you just have to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address with regards to the size of the network that you want to block. All of the addresses that you have restricted will be listed inside the exact same section and if you wish to whitelist any one of them, you will be able to do it with only a mouse click at any time.