If you see a considerable increase in the online traffic to your Internet site and if after you check the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from areas all over the world or from other web servers, your site is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Such pieces of software go through random sites seeking to log in to their administration area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under any article where such an option is available. Unfortunately, that's something quite popular lately, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you'll be able to block them, so the bots won't be able to access your website in any way. Naturally, you can block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your Internet site.

IP Blocking in Website Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool is part of the innovative Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all website hosting accounts. It shall permit you to block addresses with a few clicks. No coding skills are needed, as you shall use an intuitive interface - you need to simply select a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and enter the IP address you want to be blocked. You shall be able to see all the IP addresses you have added within the exact same section and whitelisting each of them will take just a click. If you notice your site is being flooded by different IPs, you shall be able to block an entire IP range too. This may be done by omitting the last number of the address. For example, if you would like to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you just need to enter 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting CP, included with our semi-dedicated servers, will enable you to solve the problem with unwanted traffic very quickly and easily. It incorporates an IP blocking tool in which you may add IP addresses with a few mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains which you have in the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you just have to choose the one you need and then type the IP address that needs to be blocked. If you wish to block an entire range, a C-class network for instance, you simply need to type in the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. This shall block all 254 addresses, so you shall not need to type them by hand. Since all the IPs that you include in this section will be listed, you may effortlessly unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button related to the particular IP.