If you notice a large increase in the traffic to your site and in case after you check the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from locations all over the world or from other servers, your site is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. These programs go through random Internet sites looking to log in to their admin area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under any sort of article where this sort of an option is available. The fact is that, this is something quite popular lately, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you may block them, so the bots won't be able to access your site in any way. Certainly, 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 is included with the innovative Hepsia hosting Control Panel, provided with all cloud website hosting accounts. It'll enable you to block addresses with just several clicks. No coding abilities are needed, since you shall 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 shall be able to see all the IP addresses that you've added inside the very same section and whitelisting any of them shall take simply a click. If you notice that your website is being flooded by numerous IPs, you will be able to block a whole IP range as well. This may be completed by omitting the last number of the address. For instance, if you need 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

If you host your sites within a semi-dedicated server account with us and you wish to block one or a number of IP addresses at some point, you could take advantage of the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we have included in our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With simply several mouse clicks, you'll be able to block individual IPs or entire ranges, if necessary. All you shall need to do is choose any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, choose if the blocking should be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that is part of the website, and then type in the IP address you want to block. For an IP range, you just need 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 of the addresses that you've restricted shall be listed within the very same section and if you wish to whitelist any one of them, you shall be able to do it with only a click anytime.