If you notice a significant increase in the traffic to your website and in case after you check the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from places around the world or from other servers, your website is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. These programs go through random Internet sites looking to log in to their admin area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments underneath every article where this sort of an option is offered. The fact is that, that is something rather common these days, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you could block them, so the bots shall not be able to access your site in any way. Of course, you'll be able to block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your Internet site.

IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool is included with the innovative Hepsia hosting Control Panel, offered with all cloud hosting accounts. It shall allow you to block addresses with only several mouse clicks. No coding abilities are needed, since you will use an intuitive interface - you simply need to select a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type in the IP address that you would like to be blocked. You will be able to see all the IP addresses that you have added inside the same section and whitelisting each of them will take only a click. If you notice that your website is being flooded by different IPs, you shall be able to block a whole IP range too. 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 just need to input 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, provided with our semi-dedicated packages, will permit you to solve the problem with unwanted traffic very easily and quickly. It comes with an IP blocking tool in which you can add IP addresses with several mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains that you have in the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only have to select the one you need and then type the IP address that has to be blocked. If you would like to block an entire range, a C-class network for example, you simply need to type in the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. This will block all 254 addresses, so you will not need to input them manually. Considering that all the IPs you include in this section shall be listed, you could effortlessly unblock any of them by clicking the Delete button related to the given IP.