If you notice a considerable increase in the online traffic to your site and in case after you check the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from locations across the globe or from other web servers, your site is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. Such programs go through random sites trying to log in to their admin area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below any article where this sort of an option is provided. The fact is that, that is something quite common nowadays, 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 Internet site in any way. Certainly, you can block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your Internet site.
IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting
Our IP Blocking tool is part of the innovative Hepsia hosting CP, provided with all cloud hosting accounts. It'll enable you to block addresses with just a few clicks. No coding skills are required, because you shall use an intuitive interface - you need to simply choose a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type in the IP address you want to be blocked. You will be able to see all the IP addresses you have added in the exact same section and whitelisting each of them shall take only a click. If you notice your Internet site is being flooded by different IPs, you'll be able to block an entire IP range too. This could be performed by omitting the last number of the address. For instance, if you wish to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you only need to enter 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
Our semi-dedicated server accounts feature a quite simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that'll enable you to prohibit individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your sites with no more thana couple of mouse clicks and you will not have any difficulties to accomplish that even if this is your first web hosting account. When you check out the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you will only have to select the domain or subdomain in question from a drop-down list, then type the IP address inside a box that you'll see there and you will be all set. To limit the access for an entire network, you will need to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you input 123.123. and don't enter anything in the third and fourth positions, our web server shall deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.