In case you notice a major increase in the online traffic to your site and in case after you look into the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from locations across the globe or from other web servers, your website is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. These programs go through random sites attempting to log in to their admin area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below every article where this kind of an option is available. The fact is that, that's something relatively common these days, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you'll be able to block them, so the bots will not be able to access your Internet 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 Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting account with us and you wish to block one or a few IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, that's incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. Through a pretty simple interface, you could restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it takes to perform this is to log in to your CP, to check out the IP Blocking section, to pick a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to type in the IP address. You will not have to do anything challenging if you'd like to block a whole network - you will simply have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot will block the whole range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed inside the exact same section, so you shall be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with only a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your websites in a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you need to block one or a number of IP addresses at some point, you are able to benefit from the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we've supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With simply a few mouse clicks, you shall be able to block certain IPs or whole ranges, if necessary. All you will need to do is choose any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, select if the blocking should be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that's part of the Internet site, and then input the IP address you want to block. For an IP range, you just have to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address based on the size of the network which you want to block. All of the addresses that you've restricted will be listed within the exact same section and if you wish to whitelist any of them, you will be able to do it with just a mouse click at any time.