In case you notice a major increase in the online traffic to your Internet site and in case after you look into the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from places around the world or from other web servers, your website is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Those pieces of software go through random Internet sites aiming to log in to their administrator area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments beneath every article where such an option is available. The fact is that, this is something relatively frequent in recent times, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you could block them, so the bots shall not be able to access your Internet site in any way. Needless to say, you can block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your Internet site.

IP Blocking in Web Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool comes with the ground breaking Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all web hosting accounts. It'll enable you to block addresses with just a few mouse clicks. No coding abilities are necessary, since you'll 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 would like to be blocked. You'll be able to see all the IP addresses that you have added within the exact same section and whitelisting any of them shall take just a mouse click. If you notice that your site is being flooded by various IPs, you shall be able to block a whole IP range as well. This may be completed by omitting the last number of the address. For instance, 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 Hosting

Our semi-dedicated server accounts come with a very simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that'll allow you to restrict individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your Internet sites with justa couple of clicks and you will not have any issues to do that even if that's your first website hosting account. When you navigate to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you will simply have to select the domain or subdomain you want from a drop-down list, then type the IP address within a box that you will see there and you will be all set. To restrict the access for a whole network, you must leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you enter 123.123. and don't enter anything in the third and fourth positions, our hosting server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.