If you notice a significant increase in the online traffic to your website and if after you examine the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from areas all over the world or from other servers, your site is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. These programs go through random websites looking to log in to their administration area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments underneath any sort of article where this sort of an option is available. However, this is something relatively frequent lately, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you may block them, so the bots will be unable to access your website in any way. Naturally, you may block IPs even if you allow only people from particular countries to access your Internet site.

IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting

If you purchase a cloud hosting from us, you will be able to see comprehensive traffic statistics for all your sites and if you notice that a large amount of the visits to any of them aren't real, you'll be able to block the IP addresses that have produced the most traffic through our IP Blocking tool. The interface is really simple - select the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then type the IP address that you would like to block and save the change. All of the addresses that you have blacklisted will show up in the same section of the Control Panel, so you're able to always remove any one of them and allow it to access your website again. You can block entire IP ranges via the tool as well - you simply need to leave 1 or 2 octets from the address blank. For example, entering 1.2.3. will block all 254 IPs from to

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, included with our semi-dedicated servers, will permit you to solve the issue with unwanted traffic very easily and quickly. It incorporates an IP blocking tool where you could add IP addresses with only several mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains which you have inside the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only have to pick the one you need and then input the IP address that needs to be blocked. If you want to block a whole range, a C-class network for instance, you just have to type in the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. This will block all 254 addresses, so you will not need to type in them by hand. Considering that all the IPs that you add in this section shall be listed, you could easily unblock any of them by clicking the Delete button associated with the given IP.