If you notice a major increase in the online traffic to your Internet site and in case after you look into the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from places across the world or from other web servers, your website is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Those pieces of software go through random websites looking to log in to their administrator area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments underneath any article where such an option is provided. Unfortunately, that is something rather frequent in recent times, 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 Internet site in any way. Of course, you may block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your Internet site.

IP Blocking in Cloud Website Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool is included with the revolutionary Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all cloud website hosting accounts. It'll permit you to block addresses with a couple of clicks. No coding skills are required, since you shall use an intuitive interface - you simply need to pick a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and input the IP address you want to be blocked. You shall be able to see all the IP addresses which you have added within the exact same section and whitelisting any of them shall take only a mouse click. If you notice that your website is being flooded by different IPs, you'll be able to block an entire IP range as well. This could be performed 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 basically have to type in 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts come with a rather simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will enable you to prohibit individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your websites with justa few clicks and you will not have any troubles to achieve that even if this is your first web hosting account. As soon as you check out the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you'll just need to select the domain or subdomain you need from a drop-down list, then type in the IP address within a box that you will see there and you will be all set. To limit the access for a whole network, you have to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you input 123.123. and do not enter anything within the third and fourth positions, our server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.