If you notice a significant increase in the online traffic to your Internet site and if after you examine the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from locations around the world or from other servers, your site is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Those pieces of software go through random Internet sites looking to log in to their administration area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments beneath any sort of article where this sort of an option is available. Regrettably, this is something quite popular lately, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you could block them, so the bots won't be able to access your website 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 part of the innovative Hepsia hosting CP, offered with all cloud website hosting accounts. It'll permit you to block addresses with only a couple of mouse clicks. No coding skills are needed, because you will use an intuitive interface - you just need to select a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type the IP address that you'd like to be blocked. You shall be able to see all the IP addresses which you have added within the exact same section and whitelisting each of them shall take only a click. If you notice that your website is being flooded by various IPs, you'll be able to block an entire IP range too. This could be performed by omitting the last number of the address. For example, if you need to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you just have to input 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you want to block one or several IP addresses at some point, you could leverage the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we've provided with our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With a couple of clicks, you shall be able to block specific IPs or whole ranges, if required. All you shall have to do is pick out any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, decide if the blocking needs to be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that's part of the Internet site, 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 that you want to block. All the addresses that you have restricted shall be listed inside the same exact section and if you wish to whitelist any one of them, you shall be able to do it with a click whenever you want.