If you notice a considerable increase in the online traffic to your site and if after you check the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from countries across the world or from other web servers, your Internet site is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. These pieces of software go through random sites seeking to log in to their administrator area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under any article where this sort of an option is available. The fact is that, that is something relatively common these days, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you'll be able to block them, so the bots shall not be able to access your site in any way. Naturally, you can block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your site.
IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting
If you have a cloud hosting account with us and you wish to block one or several IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, which is integrated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. Through a rather simple interface, you can restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it requires to do that is to log inside to your Control Panel, to go to the IP Blocking section, to select a certain domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to type in the IP address. You simply won't need to do anything challenging if you'd like 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 entire range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed within the same exact section, so you'll be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with only a mouse click.
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, offered with our Linux semi-dedicated servers, will permit you to solve the challenge with unwanted traffic very efficiently. It comes with an IP blocking tool in which you may add IP addresses with only a couple of mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains which you have inside the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only need to choose the one you need and then type the IP address that needs to be blocked. If you would like to block a whole range, a C-class network for instance, you just need to enter the first 3 octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That will block all 254 addresses, so you'll not need to type in them manually. Since all the IPs which you include in this section shall be listed, you could quickly unblock any of them by clicking the Delete button relevant to the particular IP.