If you see a significant increase in the traffic to your website and if after you look at the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from locations all over the world or from other web servers, your Internet site is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. These pieces of software go through random websites attempting to log in to their administrator area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under every article where this sort of an option is provided. However, this is something rather 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 can block IPs even if you allow only people from particular countries to access your Internet site.

IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting account with us and you wish to block one or several IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, which is included in our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Through a pretty simple interface, you can stop any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it requires to do that is to log within to your Control Panel, to check out the IP Blocking section, to select a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You will not have to do anything complicated if you wish to block a whole network - you will just have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot shall block the whole range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed inside the same exact section, so you'll be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with just a mouse click.