If you see a major increase in the online traffic to your website and if after you examine the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from countries all over the world or from other servers, your Internet site is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. Such programs go through random sites attempting to log in to their administration area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments underneath every article where this kind of an option is provided. The fact is that, that's something relatively popular these days, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you can block them, so the bots will be unable to access your website in any way. Needless to say, you may block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your Internet site.

IP Blocking in Cloud Website Hosting

If you have a cloud website hosting account with our company and you would like to block one or a few IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, which is included in our in-house built Hepsia CP. Through a pretty simple interface, you can restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it takes to do this is to log within to your Control Panel, to check out the IP Blocking section, to select a specific domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to type in the IP address. You won't have to do anything challenging if you'd like to block an entire network - you will simply have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot will block the whole range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed in the very same section, so you'll be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with only a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated server account with us and you need to block one or a number of IP addresses at some point, you are able to take advantage of the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we've supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With only a couple of clicks, you will be able to block individual IPs or whole ranges, if required. All you shall have to do is pick any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, select if the blocking must be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that is part of the site, and then input the IP address you want to block. For an IP range, you just have to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address based on the size of the network you want to block. Each of the addresses you have restricted shall be listed in the very same section and if you want to whitelist any of them, you'll be able to do it with just a click anytime.