If you notice a considerable increase in the online traffic to your website and in case after you check the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from locations around the world or from other web servers, your Internet site is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Those programs go through random sites looking to log in to their administrator area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments beneath every article where this kind of an option is offered. The fact is that, that is something relatively common lately, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you may block them, so the bots will be unable to access your website in any way. Certainly, you are able to block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your Internet site.

IP Blocking in Cloud Website Hosting

If you buy a Linux cloud website hosting from our company, you shall be able to see comprehensive traffic statistics for all your sites and if you notice that a lot of the visits to each of them aren't authentic, you may block the IP addresses which have produced the most traffic by using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is incredibly simple - choose the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then type the IP address that you'd like to block and save the change. All the addresses that you've blacklisted shall appear inside the exact same section of the CP, so you're able to always remove any one of them and permit it to access your Internet site again. You are able to block entire IP ranges through the tool as well - you just have 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.