If you notice a considerable increase in the traffic to your site and if after you look into the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from countries around the world 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 administrator area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under any article where this sort of an option is provided. Unfortunately, that's something relatively common nowadays, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you can block them, so the bots shall not be able to access your website in any way. Naturally, you may block IPs even if you allow only people from particular countries to access your Internet site.

IP Blocking in Web Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool comes with the advanced Hepsia hosting CP, offered with all web hosting accounts. It'll enable you to block addresses with simply a few clicks. No coding abilities are necessary, due to the fact that you will use an intuitive interface - you simply need to choose a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and input the IP address that you'd like to be blocked. You shall be able to see all the IP addresses that you have added within the exact same section and whitelisting each of them will take simply a mouse click. If you notice that your Internet site is being flooded by different IPs, you will be able to block a whole IP range as well. This could be done by omitting the last number of the address. For example, if you wish 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 in a semi-dedicated server account with us and you wish to block one or numerous IP addresses eventually, you are able to use the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we've included in our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With simply a few mouse clicks, you'll be able to block specific IPs or entire ranges, if needed. All you will have to do is choose any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, select if the blocking needs to be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that's part of the site, and then enter the IP address that you want to block. For an IP range, you just need to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address depending on the size of the network which you want to block. All of the addresses that you have restricted shall be listed within the same section and if you wish to whitelist any of them, you'll be able to do it with just a mouse click whenever you want.