If you notice a major increase in the online traffic to your site and if after you examine the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from locations across the world or from other servers, your Internet site is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Those programs go through random sites aiming to log in to their admin area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below any sort of article where this type of an option is made available. However, this is something relatively popular these days, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you may block them, so the bots won't be able to access your Internet site in any way. Certainly, you may block IPs even if you allow only people from particular countries to access your site.

IP Blocking in Cloud Web Hosting

If you have a cloud web hosting account with us and you want to block one or a few IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, that is incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. Through a very simple interface, you'll be able to prevent any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it requires to perform this is to log inside to your CP, to navigate to the IP Blocking section, to select a certain domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You won't have to do anything challenging 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 shall be listed inside the same section, so you will be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with just a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your websites inside a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you want to block one or several IP addresses at some point, you could leverage the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we have included in our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With just several clicks, you shall be able to block individual IPs or entire ranges, if required. All you shall have to do is select any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, select if the blocking needs to be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that's part of the website, and then input the IP address that you want to block. For an IP range, you just need to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address depending on the size of the network you want to block. All of the addresses you have restricted will be listed inside the same section and if you would like to whitelist any of them, you shall be able to do it with a click anytime.