If you see a considerable increase in the online traffic to your site and if after you examine the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from locations around the world or from other servers, your Internet site is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. These pieces of software go through random websites looking to log in to their administrator area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments beneath every article where this sort of an option is provided. The fact is that, this is something quite popular lately, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you may block them, so the bots will be unable to access your Internet site in any way. Naturally, you may block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your Internet site.

IP Blocking in Cloud Web Hosting

If you have a cloud web hosting account with us and you would like to block one or a number of IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, that's integrated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. By using a really simple interface, you could restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it requires to perform that is to log in to your Control Panel, to visit the IP Blocking section, to pick a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to type in the IP address. You simply won't need to do anything complex if you wish to block an entire network - you'll simply have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot will block the entire range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed in the exact same section, so you will be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with a mouse click.