If you notice a large increase in the traffic to your Internet site and in case after you look at the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from areas across the globe or from other web servers, your Internet site is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. These pieces of software go through random sites trying to log in to their administration area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments underneath every article where this kind of an option is available. The fact is that, that's something relatively popular in recent times, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you could block them, so the bots shall not be able to access your site in any way. Naturally, you are able to block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your Internet site.

IP Blocking in Cloud Web Hosting

Our Linux cloud web hosting include an IP blocking tool, so in case you'd like to restrict the access to your Internet sites, you'll be able to do this with only a few mouse clicks. The tool is provided with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all accounts and that's very simple to use. Once you log in and visit the IP blocking section, you'll just have to pick a domain or a subdomain hosted inside the account and type in the IP address which needs to be blocked. Our system will allow you to block entire networks too, so if you type 123.123.123., for instance, this shall block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your sites. If you would like to whitelist an IP at some point, you could unblock it with a mouse click from the same section.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with our semi-dedicated service, will enable you to solve the matter with unwanted traffic very easily and quickly. It features an IP blocking tool in which you can add IP addresses with just a couple of clicks. All domains and subdomains you have in the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you just have to pick the one you need and then type in the IP address that has to be blocked. If you would like to block a whole range, a C-class network for example, you just need to type the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. This will block all 254 addresses, so you'll not need to input them by hand. As all the IPs which you add in this section shall be listed, you may effortlessly unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button associated with the given IP.