If you notice a major increase in the online traffic to your site and if after you look at the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from locations across the world or from other web servers, your website is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. These pieces of software go through random sites attempting to log in to their administrator area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments underneath every article where this type of an option is offered. Unfortunately, that is something relatively popular in recent times, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you can block them, so the bots won't be able to access your website in any way. Obviously, you are able to block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your site.

IP Blocking in Cloud Website Hosting

If you have a cloud website hosting account with us and you would like to block one or several IP addresses, you may use the IP Blocking tool, that's integrated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Through a very simple interface, you can prevent any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it requires to perform this is to log in to your CP, to visit the IP Blocking section, to choose a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You shall not need to do anything difficult if you wish 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 shall block the entire range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed within the exact same section, so you'll be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our semi-dedicated server accounts feature a quite simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will permit you to prohibit individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your websites with simplya few clicks and you won't have any troubles to do that even if this is your first hosting account. When you go to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia CP, you'll just need to pick the domain or subdomain you want from a drop-down list, then type the IP address within a box that you'll see there and you will be good to go. To limit the access for an entire network, you need to leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you type in 123.123. and don't type in anything inside the third and fourth positions, our web server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.