In case you notice a major increase in the traffic to your site and in case after you examine the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from countries around the world or from other web servers, your Internet site is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. Those programs go through random websites attempting to log in to their admin area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments underneath any sort of article where such an option is made available. Regrettably, this is something relatively common in recent times, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you'll be able to block them, so the bots will be unable to access your website in any way. Naturally, you can block IPs even if you allow only people from particular countries to access your Internet site.

IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool is part of the advanced Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all cloud hosting accounts. It'll permit you to block addresses with simply a couple of clicks. No coding abilities are needed, as you will use an intuitive interface - you need to simply select a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type in the IP address that you'd like to be blocked. You'll be able to see all the IP addresses which you have added inside the same section and whitelisting each of them will take simply a mouse click. If you notice that your Internet site is being flooded by various IPs, you'll be able to block a whole IP range as well. This may be completed by omitting the last number of the address. For instance, if you would like to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you only have to type in 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, included with our semi-dedicated services, will permit you to solve the issue with unwanted traffic very quickly and easily. It includes an IP blocking tool where you could add IP addresses with just a couple of clicks. All domains and subdomains that you have in the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only need to choose the one you need and then input the IP address that should be blocked. If you wish to block an entire range, a C-class network for instance, you just have to input the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That will block all 254 addresses, so you shall not need to type them by hand. As all the IPs you include in this section will be listed, you may very easily unblock any of them by clicking the Delete button associated with the given IP.