If you see a big increase in the online traffic to your Internet site and in case after you look at the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from areas across the world or from other web servers, your site is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. These pieces of software go through random websites attempting to log in to their administration area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below any article where this sort of an option is offered. However, that is something quite popular in recent times, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you'll be able to block them, so the bots will be unable to access your site in any way. Needless to say, you'll be able to block IPs even if you allow only people from particular countries to access your site.
IP Blocking in Shared Hosting
Our IP Blocking tool comes with the revolutionary Hepsia hosting Control Panel, provided with all shared hosting accounts. It will enable you to block addresses with only several mouse clicks. No coding skills are needed, since you will use an intuitive interface - you just need to choose a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and enter the IP address that you would like to be blocked. You will be able to see all the IP addresses you have added inside the same section and whitelisting any of them shall take simply a click. If you notice your Internet site is being flooded by various IPs, you will be able to block a whole IP range as well. This may be done by omitting the last number of the address. For example, if you want to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you just need to enter 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you host your websites in a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you wish to block one or numerous IP addresses at some point, you could leverage 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 individual IPs or whole ranges, if needed. All you'll need to do is select any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, select if the blocking must be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that is part of the website, and then input the IP address you want to block. For an IP range, you simply have to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address depending on the size of the network that you want to block. Each of the addresses you have restricted shall be listed inside the same section and if you want to whitelist any one of them, you'll be able to do it with just a mouse click whenever you want.