If you see a major increase in the online traffic to your Internet site and in case after you look into the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from places around the world or from other servers, your website is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. Such programs go through random websites seeking to log in to their administrator area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below every article where such an option is provided. Regrettably, this is something quite popular these days, 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. Naturally, you may block IPs even if you allow only people from particular countries to access your Internet site.

IP Blocking in Web Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool is part of the revolutionary Hepsia hosting Control Panel, provided with all web hosting accounts. It'll permit you to block addresses with several clicks. No coding skills are necessary, because you will use an intuitive interface - you just have to pick a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type in the IP address that you'd like to be blocked. You shall be able to see all the IP addresses that you have added in the exact same section and whitelisting each of them will take only a click. If you notice your Internet site is being flooded by various IPs, you'll be able to block an entire IP range too. This could 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 basically have to enter 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts include a very simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that'll enable you to prohibit individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your Internet sites with onlya few clicks and you won't have any troubles to achieve that even if that's your first website hosting account. As soon as you check out the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia CP, you'll only have to choose the domain or subdomain in question from a drop-down list, then type the IP address in a box that you'll see there and you will be all set. To prohibit the access for a whole network, you must leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you type in 123.123. and don't type anything within 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.