In case you notice a big increase in the traffic to your site and in case after you examine the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from locations across the world or from other web servers, your website is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. These programs go through random Internet sites attempting to log in to their admin area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under any article where this kind of an option is provided. Regrettably, that's something quite frequent these days, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you could block them, so the bots will not be able to access your website in any way. Of course, you can block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your website.

IP Blocking in Shared Website Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool comes with the ground breaking Hepsia hosting Control Panel, offered with all shared website hosting accounts. It'll enable you to block addresses with several mouse clicks. No coding abilities are required, since you'll use an intuitive interface - you just have to pick a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and input the IP address that you would like to be blocked. You'll be able to see all the IP addresses you have added within the same section and whitelisting each of them will take only a click. If you notice your website is being flooded by numerous IPs, you shall be able to block an entire IP range also. This could be performed by omitting the last number of the address. For instance, if you would like to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you basically have to type in 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your Internet sites inside a semi-dedicated server account with us and you wish to block one or numerous IP addresses at some point, you could leverage the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we have provided with our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With a few mouse clicks, you'll be able to block particular IPs or entire ranges, if required. All you'll need to do is choose any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, choose if the blocking should be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder which is part of the website, and then type the IP address that you'd like to block. For an IP range, you just need to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address in accordance with the size of the network which you want to block. All of the addresses that you've restricted will be listed in the same section and if you want to whitelist any one of them, you shall be able to do it with only a mouse click at any time.