If you notice a considerable increase in the online traffic to your website and in case after you check the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from locations all over the world or from other servers, your website is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. These pieces of software go through random websites attempting to log in to their admin area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below any sort of article where such an option is available. Regrettably, that is something rather common nowadays, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you can block them, so the bots will be unable to access your website in any way. Of course, you are able to block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your Internet site.

IP Blocking in Cloud Website Hosting

If you have a cloud website hosting account with our company and you would like to block one or a number of IP addresses, you may use the IP Blocking tool, which is incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. Through a pretty simple interface, you'll be able to stop any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it takes to perform that is to log in to your Control Panel, to go to the IP Blocking section, to pick a specific domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You'll not have to do anything challenging if you'd like to block a whole network - you will just need to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot shall block the whole range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed in the same exact section, so you shall be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts come with a rather simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will permit you to prohibit individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your sites with justa few clicks and you won't have any problems to achieve that even if this is your first 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 you need from a drop-down list, then type the IP address in a box that you'll see there and you will be good to go. To prohibit the access for an entire network, you will need to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you enter 123.123. and don't type in anything inside 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.