If you notice a considerable increase in the traffic to your Internet site and in case after you look into the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from areas across the world or from other servers, your website is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. These programs go through random Internet sites attempting to log in to their administrator area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under every article where this type of an option is available. Unfortunately, that is something relatively common these days, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you can block them, so the bots won't be able to access your Internet site in any way. Of course, you can block IPs even if you allow only people from particular countries to access your site.

IP Blocking in Cloud Website Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool comes with the ground breaking Hepsia hosting Control Panel, offered with all cloud website hosting accounts. It will enable you to block addresses with a couple of clicks. No coding skills are required, due to the fact that you'll use an intuitive interface - you simply need to select a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type the IP address that you would like to be blocked. You will be able to see all the IP addresses which you have added within the same section and whitelisting each of them shall take only a click. If you notice your Internet site is being flooded by numerous IPs, you will be able to block a whole IP range also. This can be performed by omitting the last number of the address. For instance, if you would like to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you simply need to type in 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your websites within a semi-dedicated server account with us and you would like to block one or a number of IP addresses sooner or later, you could use the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we've provided with our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With only several clicks, you will be able to block particular IPs or entire ranges, if required. All you'll need to do is pick any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, choose if the blocking must be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that is part of the website, and then input the IP address that you would like to block. For an IP range, you only have to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address with regards to the size of the network which you want to block. All the addresses which you have restricted shall be listed in the exact same section and if you would like to whitelist any of them, you will be able to do it with only a mouse click anytime.