In case you notice a big increase in the online traffic to your Internet site and if after you look into the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from areas across the world or from other servers, your site is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Those programs go through random websites looking to log in to their administration area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under any sort of article where such an option is offered. Unfortunately, that's something rather common these days, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you can block them, so the bots will not be able to access your website in any way. Of course, you may block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your Internet site.
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
You shall be able to block IP addresses effortlessly and stop the unwanted traffic to any Internet site hosted in a semi-dedicated server account with us, since we provide a really easy-to-use tool to do that, that is part of our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Even if you have never addressed this kind of matters in the past, you will not have any difficulties, since our tool provides a very user-friendly interface. When you check out the IP blocking section of the CP, you'll find a comprehensive list of all the domains and subdomains which you have added within the Hosted Domains section. What you need to do to block an IP address is select the desired domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and input the IP within the box below. The change will take effect immediately, so you'll not get any traffic from this address in the future. Removing an IP from the blocked list is equally quick.