If you see a considerable increase in the traffic to your Internet site and if after you look into the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from areas across the globe or from other servers, your site is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Such programs go through random sites seeking to log in to their admin area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments underneath any article where this type of an option is made available. Unfortunately, that is something quite popular nowadays, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you may block them, so the bots will be unable to access your site in any way. Naturally, you may block IPs even if you allow only people from certain 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 shall allow you to block addresses with only a few mouse clicks. No coding abilities are needed, as you shall use an intuitive interface - you just need to select a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type the IP address you want to be blocked. You will be able to see all the IP addresses you have added within the same section and whitelisting any of them shall take simply a click. If you notice that your website is being flooded by various IPs, you will be able to block an entire IP range as well. This could be done by omitting the last number of the address. For example, if you want to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you simply have to input 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your websites in a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you wish to block one or numerous IP addresses sooner or later, you are able to take advantage of the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we have included in our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With a few clicks, you will be able to block particular IPs or entire ranges, if required. All you'll need to do is choose any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, decide if the blocking must be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that is part of the Internet site, and then input the IP address that you want to block. For an IP range, you just have to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address in accordance with the size of the network which you want to block. All the addresses that you've restricted will be listed in the very same section and if you want to whitelist any of them, you'll be able to do it with a mouse click anytime.