If you notice a significant increase in the online traffic to your Internet site and in case after you look into the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from locations across the globe or from other web servers, your Internet site is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Such programs go through random Internet sites aiming to log in to their admin area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments beneath any sort of article where this type of an option is made available. However, that's something quite frequent in recent times, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you may block them, so the bots shall not be able to access your site in any way. Obviously, you may block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your website.

IP Blocking in Cloud Website Hosting

If you have a cloud website hosting account with our company and you would like to block one or several IP addresses, you may use the IP Blocking tool, that's included in our in-house built Hepsia CP. Through a really simple interface, you'll be able to restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it takes to perform that is to log within to your Control Panel, to visit the IP Blocking section, to choose a certain domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You will not need to do anything complex if you would like to block a whole 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 full range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed within the exact same section, so you will be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with just a mouse click.