If you see a big increase in the traffic to your Internet site and if after you check the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from locations across the world or from other web servers, your website is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. Such programs go through random sites looking to log in to their admin area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments beneath every article where this kind of an option is available. Regrettably, that's something rather frequent these days, 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. Certainly, you can block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your site.
IP Blocking in Cloud Web Hosting
Our IP Blocking tool is included with the revolutionary Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all cloud web hosting accounts. It shall enable you to block addresses with only several mouse clicks. No coding skills are necessary, because you'll use an intuitive interface - you just need to choose a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type the IP address that you would like to be blocked. You will be able to see all the IP addresses that you've added within the very same section and whitelisting each of them will take just a click. If you notice your Internet site is being flooded by numerous IPs, you'll be able to block an entire IP range also. This could be performed 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 basically need to enter 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Our semi-dedicated server accounts come with a rather simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will permit you to prohibit individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your websites with onlyseveral mouse clicks and you will not have any problems to do that even if that's your first web hosting account. When you go to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you will simply have to select the domain or subdomain you need from a drop-down list, then input the IP address within a box that you will see there and you will be all set. To restrict the access for a whole network, you will need to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you enter 123.123. and don't type anything in 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.