In case you notice a big increase in the online traffic to your website and in case after you look at the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from places all over the world or from other web servers, your website is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Those pieces of software go through random websites seeking to log in to their administrator area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below every article where such an option is offered. The fact is that, that's something quite popular these days, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you can block them, so the bots will not be able to access your site in any way. Obviously, you may block IPs even if you allow only people from particular countries to access your Internet site.
IP Blocking in Cloud Website Hosting
Our cloud website hosting offer an IP blocking tool, so in case you'd like to limit the access to your websites, you'll be able to do so with only several clicks. The tool is part of the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all accounts and which is very simple to use. Once you log in and navigate to the IP blocking section, you shall just need to select a domain or a subdomain hosted in the account and type in the IP address that should be blocked. Our system will permit you to block entire networks also, so if you type in 123.123.123., for instance, this'll block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your sites. If you want to whitelist an IP at some point, you may unblock it with just a click from the same section.
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
Our semi-dedicated server accounts include a quite simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will allow you to restrict individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your websites with onlya few clicks and you won't have any difficulties to accomplish that even if that's your first website hosting account. When you check out the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you will simply have to pick the domain or subdomain you want from a drop-down list, then type the IP address inside a box which you'll see there and you will be good to go. To limit the access for a whole network, you will need to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you input 123.123. and do not enter anything in the third and fourth positions, our server shall deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.