If you see a big increase in the online traffic to your Internet site and in case after you check the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from locations around the world or from other servers, your Internet site is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. Those pieces of software go through random websites aiming to log in to their administrator area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments underneath any sort of article where this sort of an option is available. However, that is something relatively popular lately, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you could block them, so the bots will be unable to access your site 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 Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool comes with the innovative Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all cloud hosting accounts. It will permit you to block addresses with simply a couple of mouse clicks. No coding skills are needed, since you will use an intuitive interface - you just need to select a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type in the IP address that you'd like to be blocked. You will be able to see all the IP addresses that you have added within the same section and whitelisting each of them shall take simply a mouse click. If you notice your site is being flooded by different IPs, you'll be able to block a whole 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 only have to input 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts include a quite simple-to-use IP blocking tool, which will allow you to prohibit individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your sites with simplyseveral mouse clicks and you will not have any problems to achieve that even if this is your first hosting account. When you go to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia CP, you'll just have to choose the domain or subdomain you want from a drop-down list, then type the IP address inside a box which you'll see there and you will be ready. To prohibit the access for a whole network, you must leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you input 123.123. and don't type anything in 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.