If you notice a major increase in the traffic to your site and if after you check the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from countries across the globe or from other servers, your website is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. Such pieces of software go through random sites seeking to log in to their admin area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments underneath every article where this kind of an option is available. However, that's something quite popular lately, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you'll be able to block them, so the bots won't be able to access your Internet site in any way. Naturally, you can block IPs even if you allow only people from particular countries to access your website.

IP Blocking in Website Hosting

If you order a Linux website hosting package from us, you'll be able to see comprehensive traffic stats for all your Internet sites and if you notice that a lot of the visits to any of them aren't legit, you'll be able to block the IP addresses that have generated the most traffic via our IP Blocking tool. The interface is quite simple - choose the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then enter the IP address that you'd like to block and save the change. All of the addresses you have blacklisted shall appear in the same section of the CP, so that you can always remove any one of them and allow it to access your site again. You could block whole IP ranges using the tool too - you just need to leave one or two octets from the address blank. For instance, entering 1.2.3. will block all 254 IPs from 1.2.3.1 to 1.2.3.255.