In case you notice a significant increase in the traffic to your Internet site and in case after you look at the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from countries around the world or from other web servers, your Internet site is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. These programs go through random websites looking to log in to their admin area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments underneath any sort of article where this sort of an option is provided. Regrettably, that is something relatively common in recent times, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you can block them, so the bots won't be able to access your site in any way. Certainly, you'll be able to block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your website.
IP Blocking in Web Hosting
If you order a Linux web hosting service from our company, you'll be able to see detailed traffic stats for all of your sites and if you notice that a lot of the visits to each of them are not real, you can block the IP addresses that have created the most traffic using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is quite simple - choose the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then type in the IP address that you want to block and save the change. All of the addresses that you have blacklisted will appear in the same exact section of the Control Panel, so you can always remove any one of them and enable it to access your Internet site again. You'll be able to block entire IP ranges via the tool as well - you simply need to leave one or two octets from the address blank. As an example, entering 1.2.3. will block all 254 IPs from 1.2.3.1 to 1.2.3.255.
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you host your Internet sites inside a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you need to block one or numerous IP addresses eventually, you can take advantage of the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we have included in our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With several clicks, you'll be able to block specific IPs or whole ranges, if required. All you will need to do is pick out any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, decide if the blocking must be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that's part of the website, and then input the IP address that you'd like to block. For an IP range, you simply need to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address with regards to the size of the network you want to block. Each of the addresses which you have restricted will be listed in the same section and if you would like to whitelist any of them, you will be able to do it with a mouse click anytime.