If you notice a big increase in the traffic to your site and in case after you examine the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from places around the world or from other servers, your Internet site is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Such pieces of software go through random websites seeking to log in to their administrator area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under every article where such an option is provided. Regrettably, that's something quite popular in recent times, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you may block them, so the bots will not 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 Cloud Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool is part of the ground breaking Hepsia hosting Control Panel, provided with all cloud hosting accounts. It will enable you to block addresses with simply several clicks. No coding skills are required, due to the fact that you will use an intuitive interface - you simply need to pick a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type in the IP address that you'd like to be blocked. You shall be able to see all the IP addresses you have added in the very same section and whitelisting any of them will take simply a click. If you notice that your website is being flooded by various IPs, you shall be able to block a whole IP range also. This may be performed by omitting the last number of the address. For example, if you wish to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you just have to type in 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .