If you notice a large increase in the traffic to your site and if after you examine the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from countries across the world or from other servers, your Internet site is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Such pieces of software go through random sites attempting to log in to their admin area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments beneath any article where this type of an option is provided. Unfortunately, that is something rather popular these days, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you'll be able to block them, so the bots will not be able to access your site in any way. Needless to say, you can block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your site.

IP Blocking in Cloud Web Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool is part of the revolutionary Hepsia hosting CP, provided with all cloud web hosting accounts. It'll allow you to block addresses with just several clicks. No coding skills are necessary, as you shall use an intuitive interface - you need to simply pick a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type the IP address that you'd like to be blocked. You shall be able to see all the IP addresses which you have added inside the very same section and whitelisting any of them shall take just a mouse click. If you notice your website is being flooded by numerous IPs, you shall be able to block a whole IP range also. This could 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 only need to type in 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your sites inside a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you want to block one or a number of IP addresses eventually, you'll be able to benefit from the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we have supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With only a few mouse clicks, you will be able to block certain IPs or entire ranges, if needed. All you'll have to do is pick out any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, select if the blocking needs to be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that's part of the Internet site, and then enter the IP address that you would like to block. For an IP range, you simply have to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address with regards to the size of the network you want to block. All the addresses which you have restricted will be listed inside the same section and if you wish to whitelist any one of them, you shall be able to do it with just a click whenever you want.