If you see a large increase in the online traffic to your Internet site and if after you check the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from countries across the globe or from other web servers, your site is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. Those pieces of software go through random sites trying to log in to their administrator area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under any article where this sort of an option is available. The fact is that, this is something quite common nowadays, 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 Internet site in any way. Certainly, you are able to block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your website.

IP Blocking in Cloud Website Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool is included with the advanced Hepsia hosting Control Panel, offered with all cloud website hosting accounts. It shall permit you to block addresses with simply a couple of clicks. No coding skills are needed, since you'll use an intuitive interface - you simply need to select a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and enter the IP address that you would like to be blocked. You'll be able to see all the IP addresses which you have added in the exact same section and whitelisting each of them shall take just a mouse click. If you notice that your website is being flooded by different IPs, you'll be able to block a whole IP range as well. This may 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 just have to type in 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our semi-dedicated server accounts come with a quite simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will permit you to restrict individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your sites with onlya few mouse clicks and you won't have any troubles to achieve that even if that's your first website hosting account. Once you check out the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia CP, you will only need to select the domain or subdomain you need from a drop-down list, then enter the IP address inside a box that you will see there and you will be all set. To restrict the access for a whole network, you'll have to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you type 123.123. and don't input anything within the third and fourth positions, our hosting server shall deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.