If you see a considerable increase in the online traffic to your website and in case after you look into the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from places all over the world or from other web servers, your website is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. Those pieces of software go through random Internet sites looking to log in to their administrator area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under any sort of article where this sort of an option is offered. Unfortunately, that's something rather frequent in recent times, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you could block them, so the bots will not be able to access your site in any way. Of course, you'll be able to 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 comes with the ground breaking Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all cloud website hosting accounts. It shall allow you to block addresses with simply several clicks. No coding skills are necessary, since you will use an intuitive interface - you just need to choose a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type the IP address that you want to be blocked. You'll be able to see all the IP addresses you have added within the same section and whitelisting any of them shall take only a click. If you notice that your website is being flooded by different IPs, you shall 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 would like to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you basically need to type in 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your websites inside a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you need to block one or several IP addresses sooner or later, you are able to benefit from the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we have provided with our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With a few mouse clicks, you will be able to block individual IPs or whole ranges, if needed. All you shall need 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 is part of the website, and then type the IP address you want to block. For an IP range, you simply need to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address depending on the size of the network you want to block. All of the addresses which you have restricted shall be listed inside the very same section and if you want to whitelist any one of them, you shall be able to do it with only a click at any time.