In case you notice a large increase in the online traffic to your website and in case after you check the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from countries across the world or from other web servers, your Internet site is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. These pieces of software go through random sites trying to log in to their administration area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments underneath any sort of article where such an option is made available. Unfortunately, that is something relatively popular 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 website in any way. Naturally, you can block IPs even if you allow only people from particular countries to access your website.

IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool is part of the advanced Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all cloud hosting accounts. It will enable you to block addresses with just a few mouse clicks. No coding abilities are necessary, because you'll use an intuitive interface - you need to simply choose a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type in the IP address that you would like to be blocked. You shall be able to see all the IP addresses you have added inside the same section and whitelisting each of them shall take just a mouse click. If you notice that your site is being flooded by different IPs, you shall be able to block a whole IP range also. This can be completed by omitting the last number of the address. For example, if you want to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you simply have to input 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting CP, offered with our semi-dedicated plans, will permit you to solve the matter with unwanted traffic very quickly and easily. It incorporates an IP blocking tool where you could add IP addresses with only a few clicks. All domains and subdomains you have within the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you simply have to choose the one you need and then enter the IP address which should be blocked. If you wish to block a whole range, a C-class network for instance, you just have to type in the first 3 octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. This shall block all 254 addresses, so you will not have to input them by hand. Since all the IPs which you add in this section will be listed, you may quickly unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button related to the given IP.