In case you notice a big increase in the traffic to your Internet site and in case after you check the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from areas across the globe or from other servers, your website is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Such pieces of software go through random sites seeking to log in to their admin area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under any sort of article where such an option is provided. Unfortunately, that is something relatively popular lately, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you can block them, so the bots shall not be able to access your website in any way. Naturally, you can block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your website.

IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting account with us and you would like to block one or several IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, which is included in our in-house built Hepsia CP. Through a rather simple interface, you could restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it takes to do this is to log inside to your CP, to navigate to the IP Blocking section, to pick a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to type in the IP address. You shall not have to do anything complicated if you'd like to block an entire network - you'll just have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot shall block the full range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed inside the very same section, so you shall be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with just a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts feature a really simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will allow you to prohibit individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your websites with no more thana few mouse clicks and you will not have any difficulties to do that even if that is your first web hosting account. Once you check out the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia CP, you'll only need to select the domain or subdomain in question from a drop-down list, then input the IP address in a box that you'll see there and you will be all set. To restrict the access for an entire network, you must leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you input 123.123. and do not type in anything in the third and fourth positions, our hosting server shall deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.