In case you notice a considerable increase in the online traffic to your website and if after you look into the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from areas across the world or from other servers, your website is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. These programs go through random sites looking to log in to their administration area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under every article where such an option is available. Unfortunately, this is something relatively common in recent times, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you could block them, so the bots shall not be able to access your website in any way. Naturally, you may block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your site.
IP Blocking in Web Hosting
If you buy a Linux web hosting package from us, you will be able to see comprehensive traffic stats for all your sites and if you notice that a large amount of the visits to any of them aren't real, you are able to block the IP addresses which have generated the most traffic by using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is quite simple - choose the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then type the IP address you want to block and save the change. All the addresses which you have blacklisted will show up in the same exact section of the Control Panel, so you can always remove any of them and permit it to access your website again. You'll be able to block whole IP ranges using the tool as well - you just have 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 Hosting
The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with our semi-dedicated hosting packages, will enable you to solve the issue with unwanted traffic very easily. It features an IP blocking tool where you can add IP addresses with a few clicks. All domains and subdomains you have inside the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you just need to pick the one you need and then input the IP address which should be blocked. If you would like to block an entire range, a C-class network for instance, you just have to type in the first 3 octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That shall block all 254 addresses, so you'll not have to input them manually. As all the IPs you include in this section shall be listed, you could easily unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button related to the particular IP.