Hi folk I'm experience issue with my site, since yesterday the traffic going up significantly beyond my site normal badwidth. I raised the bandwitdh but the the traffic from one IP keep going up and shut my site down. How can i block the IP so it does not steal my bandwidth or what need to be done when this situation occur. warm regards tisa
If you are on Apache, make a file and call it .htaccess, and save it on webroot folder (public_html or www), put this line in it: deny from the_ip_address_you_are_talking_about Code (markup): You might have a .htaccess file, in that case, put this line under all the lines in there. cPanel also blocks IPs like this. Also, this is a DOS attack, if you want to read about it.