If you see a major increase in the online traffic to your Internet site and in case after you examine the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from countries across the world or from other web servers, your site is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Such programs go through random websites aiming to log in to their administration area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments underneath every article where such an option is made available. Unfortunately, that is something relatively 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 Internet site in any way. Of course, you'll be able to block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your site.
IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting
If you have a cloud hosting account with us and you want to block one or a number of IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, which is integrated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Through a very simple interface, you'll be able to stop any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it requires to do this is to log inside to your Control Panel, to check out the IP Blocking section, to choose a certain domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You won't have to do anything challenging if you wish to block a whole network - you'll just need to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot will block the entire range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed in the exact same section, so you shall be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with a mouse click.
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you host your sites inside a semi-dedicated server account with us and you would like to block one or a few IP addresses eventually, you'll be able to take advantage of the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we have included in our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With simply several mouse clicks, you'll be able to block particular IPs or whole ranges, if required. All you shall need to do is pick any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, choose if the blocking should be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that is part of the Internet site, and then type in the IP address that you'd like to block. For an IP range, you simply have to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address in accordance with the size of the network you want to block. Each of the addresses which you have restricted shall be listed in the same section and if you wish to whitelist any one of them, you will be able to do it with simply a mouse click anytime.