If you notice a big increase in the online traffic to your website and in case after you check the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from locations across the world or from other servers, your Internet site is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. Such pieces of software go through random sites looking to log in to their admin area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments underneath any article where this type of an option is offered. Regrettably, that is something rather popular these days, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you can block them, so the bots will be unable to access your website in any way. Obviously, you can block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your site.

IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool comes with the advanced Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all cloud hosting accounts. It'll permit you to block addresses with a couple of mouse clicks. No coding skills are required, due to the fact that you'll use an intuitive interface - you just need to pick a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type the IP address that you would like to be blocked. You'll be able to see all the IP addresses you have added within the very same section and whitelisting any of them shall take just a mouse click. If you notice your site is being flooded by different IPs, you'll be able to block an entire IP range also. This can be performed by omitting the last number of the address. For example, if you want to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you simply need to type in 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts feature a rather simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will permit you to prohibit individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your websites with onlyseveral clicks and you shall not have any issues to achieve that even if that is your first hosting account. As soon as you navigate to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you will just need to select the domain or subdomain in question from a drop-down list, then input the IP address in a box which you'll see there and you will be good to go. To limit the access for a whole network, you need to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you input 123.123. and don't input anything within the third and fourth positions, our web server shall deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.