If you see a large increase in the traffic to your site and in case after you look at the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from areas all over the world or from other web servers, your website is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Those programs go through random Internet sites trying to log in to their administration area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below every article where such an option is made available. The fact is that, this is something quite popular these days, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you'll be able to block them, so the bots will not be able to access your website in any way. Naturally, you may block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your Internet site.
IP Blocking in Hosting
Our IP Blocking tool is part of the innovative Hepsia hosting Control Panel, offered with all hosting accounts. It will allow you to block addresses with simply a few mouse clicks. No coding skills are necessary, as you'll use an intuitive interface - you just need to pick a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type in the IP address that you want to be blocked. You shall be able to see all the IP addresses you have added within the same section and whitelisting each of them shall take simply a mouse click. If you notice your website is being flooded by numerous IPs, you'll be able to block an entire IP range too. This can be performed 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 simply have to input 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Our semi-dedicated server accounts feature a rather simple-to-use IP blocking tool, which will permit you to restrict individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your sites with simplyseveral mouse clicks and you will not have any troubles to do that even if that is your first web hosting account. Once you navigate to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia CP, you will just need to choose the domain or subdomain you need from a drop-down list, then input the IP address in a box that you'll see there and you will be ready. To restrict the access for a whole network, you must leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you type 123.123. and do not enter anything in the third and fourth positions, our web server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.