If you notice a significant increase in the traffic to your website and if 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 most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. These pieces of software go through random Internet sites looking to log in to their administrator area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments beneath every article where such an option is made available. However, that's something relatively frequent these days, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you could block them, so the bots will be unable to access your Internet site in any way. Naturally, you can block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your website.

IP Blocking in Cloud Web Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool comes with the innovative Hepsia hosting CP, offered with all cloud web hosting accounts. It shall permit you to block addresses with simply several mouse clicks. No coding skills are required, due to the fact that you will use an intuitive interface - you just need to select a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type in the IP address that you would like to be blocked. You'll be able to see all the IP addresses that you have added within the same section and whitelisting each of them will take just a mouse click. If you notice that your website is being flooded by different IPs, you shall be able to block a whole IP range too. This could be completed by omitting the last number of the address. For example, if you would like to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you only need to enter 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your websites within a semi-dedicated server account with us and you would like to block one or a few IP addresses eventually, you may use the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we've supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With a couple of clicks, you'll be able to block particular IPs or whole ranges, if needed. All you shall need to do is pick out any 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 which is part of the website, and then enter the IP address that you would like to block. For an IP range, you only 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 of the addresses which you have restricted shall be listed inside the very same section and if you want to whitelist any of them, you'll be able to do it with simply a click whenever you want.