If you see a significant increase in the online traffic to your website and if after you check the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from countries around the world or from other web servers, your website is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. These programs go through random websites attempting to log in to their administration area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below any article where this kind of an option is available. The fact is that, this is something quite popular in recent times, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you may 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 Internet site.
IP Blocking in Shared Website Hosting
Our IP Blocking tool is included with the ground breaking Hepsia hosting Control Panel, provided with all shared website hosting accounts. It shall permit you to block addresses with only several clicks. No coding skills are necessary, due to the fact that you will use an intuitive interface - you just have to choose a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and input the IP address that you want to be blocked. You shall be able to see all the IP addresses that you've added within the very same section and whitelisting any of them shall take just a mouse click. If you notice your website is being flooded by different IPs, you will be able to block an entire IP range also. This can be done 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 input 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you host your websites in a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you want to block one or several IP addresses sooner or later, you are able to leverage the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we have provided with our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With only several mouse clicks, you will be able to block certain IPs or whole ranges, if needed. All you will have to do is pick out any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, choose if the blocking must be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder which is part of the Internet site, and then input the IP address that you would like to block. For an IP range, you simply have to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address depending on the size of the network which you want to block. All of the addresses that you have restricted shall be listed inside the same section and if you would like to whitelist any one of them, you shall be able to do it with just a mouse click anytime.