In case you notice a considerable increase in the online traffic to your website and in case after you examine the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from countries across the world or from other servers, your site is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. Those programs go through random websites attempting to log in to their administration area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below any sort of article where this type of an option is made available. Unfortunately, this is something quite popular in recent times, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you may block them, so the bots will be unable to access your Internet site in any way. Of course, you'll be able to block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your website.

IP Blocking in Cloud Web Hosting

Our Linux cloud web hosting offer an IP blocking tool, so in case you'd like to restrict the access to your sites, you will be able to do this with several mouse clicks. The tool is included with the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all accounts and that is very easy to use. As soon as you log in and visit the IP blocking section, you'll just have to select a domain or a subdomain hosted within the account and enter the IP address which needs to be blocked. Our system allows you to block entire networks as well, so if you type 123.123.123., for example, this will block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your websites. In case you want to whitelist an IP at some point, you may unblock it with simply a click from the same section.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our semi-dedicated server accounts feature a quite simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will enable you to restrict individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your websites with onlya few clicks and you shall not have any difficulties to do that even if this is your first website hosting account. As soon as you go to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you will only have to select the domain or subdomain you want from a drop-down list, then input the IP address in a box which you'll see there and you will be all set. To prohibit the access for an entire network, you'll have to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you input 123.123. and do not input anything inside the third and fourth positions, our server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.