If you notice a large increase in the traffic to your Internet site and in case after you check the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from locations all over the world or from other web servers, your website is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Such pieces of software go through random sites trying to log in to their administration area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments underneath every article where this sort of an option is made available. However, this is something relatively common in recent times, 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. Of course, you can block IPs even if you allow only people from particular countries to access your Internet site.

IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting account with us and you want to block one or a few IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, which is included in our in-house built Hepsia CP. Using a really simple interface, you'll be able to restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it requires to complete this is to log in to your CP, to go to the IP Blocking section, to choose a certain domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You'll not have to do anything complex if you would like 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 within the very same section, so you will be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with just a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts come with a very simple-to-use IP blocking tool, which will allow you to prohibit individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your Internet sites with no more thanseveral mouse clicks and you shall not have any issues to do that even if this is your first website hosting account. Once you visit the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you'll only need to select the domain or subdomain you want from a drop-down list, then type in the IP address in a box that you'll see there and you will be good to go. To restrict the access for a whole network, you have to leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you type 123.123. and do not type in anything in the third and fourth positions, our web server shall deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.