If you see a big increase in the traffic to your site and in case after you look at the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from locations across the world or from other servers, your Internet site is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Such programs go through random Internet sites aiming to log in to their administration area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments underneath every article where this sort of an option is made available. The fact is that, that's something rather common in recent times, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you may block them, so the bots will not be able to access your Internet site in any way. Naturally, you are able to block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your Internet site.

IP Blocking in Cloud Web Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool is included with the ground breaking Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all cloud web hosting accounts. It will permit you to block addresses with several mouse clicks. No coding abilities are necessary, since you'll use an intuitive interface - you just have to select a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type the IP address you want to be blocked. You shall be able to see all the IP addresses you have added in the same section and whitelisting any of them shall take just a click. If you notice that your site is being flooded by numerous IPs, you shall be able to block a whole IP range too. This could be done 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 simply have to enter 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts feature a quite simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will allow you to prohibit individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your Internet sites with no more thana few mouse clicks and you shall not have any troubles to do that even if that's your first web hosting account. Once you navigate to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia CP, you'll simply have to select the domain or subdomain you need from a drop-down list, then type the IP address in a box that you'll see there and you will be ready. To prohibit the access for a whole network, you will need to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you input 123.123. and don't enter 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.