In case you notice a big increase in the online 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 servers, your Internet site is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Such programs go through random Internet sites looking to log in to their admin area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments beneath any article where such an option is provided. Unfortunately, that is something quite common in recent times, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you'll be able to block them, so the bots won't be able to access your Internet site in any way. Obviously, you'll be able to block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your website.

IP Blocking in Cloud Web Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool is included with the ground breaking Hepsia hosting Control Panel, provided with all cloud web hosting accounts. It will permit you to block addresses with a couple of clicks. No coding skills are needed, since you shall use an intuitive interface - you simply need to pick a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type the IP address that you want to be blocked. You'll be able to see all the IP addresses you have added in the exact same section and whitelisting any of them shall take simply a click. If you notice your Internet site is being flooded by different IPs, you'll be able to block a whole IP range also. This can be done by omitting the last number of the address. For instance, if you want to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you simply need to type in 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, offered with our Linux semi-dedicated packages, will permit you to solve the matter with unwanted traffic very easily. It includes an IP blocking tool in which you could add IP addresses with several mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains that you have inside the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you just need to pick the one you need and then input the IP address that should be blocked. If you wish to block a whole range, a C-class network for example, you simply need to type in the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That shall block all 254 addresses, so you'll not need to type in them by hand. Since all the IPs that you include in this section will be listed, you may easily unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button relevant to the given IP.