If you see a big increase in the traffic to your site and in case after you check the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from areas across the world or from other servers, your Internet site is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. These programs go through random websites looking to log in to their admin area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments beneath every article where this type of an option is available. Regrettably, that's something rather popular nowadays, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you can block them, so the bots will be unable to access your website in any way. Needless to say, you may block IPs even if you allow only people from particular countries to access your site.
IP Blocking in Hosting
Our IP Blocking tool is included with the ground breaking Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all hosting accounts. It'll allow you to block addresses with only a couple of mouse clicks. No coding skills are needed, due to the fact that you will use an intuitive interface - you just need to pick a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type the IP address that you'd like to be blocked. You will be able to see all the IP addresses which you have added in the very same section and whitelisting any of them shall take just a mouse click. If you notice that your Internet site is being flooded by various IPs, you will be able to block an entire IP range also. This could be performed by omitting the last number of the address. For instance, if you wish to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you only have to input 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
Our semi-dedicated server accounts feature a rather simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that'll permit you to restrict individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your websites with simplyseveral mouse clicks and you will not have any issues to achieve that even if that's your first hosting account. When you check out the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you'll just have to pick the domain or subdomain you need from a drop-down list, then type in the IP address within a box that you'll see there and you will be all set. To restrict the access for a whole network, you'll have to leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you type in 123.123. and don't type anything within the third and fourth positions, our web server shall deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.