In case you notice a big increase in the online traffic to your Internet site and if after you look at the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from countries all over the world or from other web servers, your site is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. Those pieces of software go through random Internet sites seeking to log in to their admin area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under any article where such an option is made available. Regrettably, this is something relatively popular lately, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you could block them, so the bots will be unable to access your site in any way. Needless to say, you can block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your Internet site.

IP Blocking in Cloud Website Hosting

Our cloud website hosting include an IP blocking tool, so in case you want to restrict the access to your Internet sites, you will be able to do this with a few clicks. The tool is part of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all accounts and that's super easy to use. As soon as you log in and navigate to the IP blocking section, you will just need to select a domain or a subdomain hosted within the account and type in the IP address which should be blocked. Our system will allow you to block whole networks too, so if you type in 123.123.123., for instance, this shall block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your websites. If you wish to whitelist an IP at some point, you may unblock it with a mouse click from the same section.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your sites inside a semi-dedicated server account with us and you need to block one or a number of IP addresses eventually, you are able to leverage the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we've supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With a few mouse clicks, you shall be able to block individual IPs or entire ranges, if required. All you will have to do is choose any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, choose if the blocking needs to be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder which is part of the Internet site, and then type the IP address you want to block. For an IP range, you just have to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address based on the size of the network which you want to block. Each of the addresses that you have restricted shall be listed within the same exact section and if you would like to whitelist any of them, you shall be able to do it with simply a mouse click anytime.