In case you notice a considerable increase in the traffic to your website and if after you check the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from places all over the world or from other servers, your site is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. These programs go through random Internet sites seeking to log in to their administration area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below every article where such an option is available. Regrettably, that's something relatively common lately, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you can block them, so the bots will not be able to access your Internet site in any way. Needless to say, you may block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your site.

IP Blocking in Cloud Web Hosting

If you have a cloud web hosting account with our company and you wish to block one or several IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, that is integrated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. By using a pretty simple interface, you'll be able to restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it requires to perform this is to log in to your CP, to navigate to the IP Blocking section, to choose a certain domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to type in the IP address. You shall not have to do anything complex if you want to block an entire network - you'll 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 in the exact same section, so you shall be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with only a mouse click.