If you notice a major increase in the traffic to your Internet site and in case after you examine the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from areas across the world or from other web servers, your site is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. Those programs go through random websites trying to log in to their admin area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below any sort of article where this type of an option is available. Unfortunately, this is something rather common in recent times, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you could block them, so the bots will be unable to access your Internet site in any way. Of course, you are able to block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your site.

IP Blocking in Cloud Website Hosting

If you have a cloud website hosting account with our company and you want to block one or a number of IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, that is incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. Through a pretty simple interface, you are 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 CP, to check out the IP Blocking section, to pick a certain domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You won't have to do anything challenging if you'd like to block an entire network - you'll just need to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot shall block the full range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed inside the very same section, so you shall be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with just a mouse click.