If you see a big increase in the traffic to your website and if after you look at the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from countries across the world or from other web servers, your website is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Such programs go through random sites attempting to log in to their administration area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below any sort of article where this type of an option is made available. Unfortunately, this is something relatively common nowadays, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you can block them, so the bots will not be able to access your Internet site in any way. Of course, you'll be able to block IPs even if you allow only people from particular countries to access your site.

IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting account with our company and you would like to block one or a number of IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, that is integrated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Through a very simple interface, you are able to restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it takes to do that is to log within to your Control Panel, to navigate to the IP Blocking section, to select a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to type in the IP address. You simply won't have to do anything complex if you'd like to block an entire network - you'll simply have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot will block the entire range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed within the exact same section, so you'll be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with simply a mouse click.