If you notice a significant increase in the online traffic to your Internet site and if after you check the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from locations all over the world or from other servers, your site is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. Such programs go through random Internet sites seeking to log in to their administration area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below every article where this kind of an option is made available. However, that is something rather common these days, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you can block them, so the bots shall not be able to access your Internet site in any way. Obviously, you'll be able to block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your Internet site.

IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting

Our Linux cloud hosting packages offer an IP blocking tool, so if you'd like to limit the access to your sites, you will be able to do this with a couple of mouse clicks. The tool is provided with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all accounts and that's quite simple to use. As soon as you log in and check out the IP blocking section, you shall just have to pick a domain or a subdomain hosted inside the account and input the IP address which needs to be blocked. Our system will enable you to block entire networks too, so if you input 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'll be able to unblock it with just a mouse click from the same section.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your websites within a semi-dedicated server account with us and you need to block one or a few IP addresses sooner or later, you'll be able to take advantage of the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we've provided with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With a couple of clicks, you shall be able to block individual IPs or whole ranges, if necessary. All you will need to do is pick any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, decide if the blocking should be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder which is part of the Internet site, and then type the IP address that you'd like to block. For an IP range, you just have to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address based on the size of the network that you want to block. All of the addresses you have restricted will be listed within the exact same section and if you wish to whitelist any one of them, you will be able to do it with only a mouse click at any time.