IP Blocking
Find out more about IP blocking, why it could be so helpful and when to use it.
If you see a significant increase in the traffic to your site and in case after you look at the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from countries across the world or from other web servers, your website is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Such pieces of software go through random websites aiming to log in to their administrator area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under any sort of article where this kind of an option is made available. The fact is that, this is something relatively popular these days, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you could block them, so the bots won't be able to access your website in any way. Naturally, you may block IPs even if you allow only people from particular countries to access your website.
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IP Blocking in Shared Website Hosting
Our IP Blocking tool comes with the advanced Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all
shared website hosting accounts. It'll enable you to block addresses with a few mouse clicks. No coding abilities are required, due to the fact that you will use an intuitive interface - you just have to pick a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type in the IP address that you would like to be blocked. You shall be able to see all the IP addresses you have added within the very same section and whitelisting any of them will take simply a mouse click. If you notice your Internet site is being flooded by numerous IPs, you'll be able to block an entire IP range too. This may be performed by omitting the last number of the address. For instance, if you would like to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you simply have to type in 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .
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IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia hosting CP, provided with our
semi-dedicated plans, will allow you to solve the matter with unwanted traffic very easily. It comes with an IP blocking tool in which you could add IP addresses with a few clicks. All domains and subdomains you have in the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only have to select the one you need and then type in the IP address that needs to be blocked. If you wish to block a whole range, a C-class network for example, you simply need to type in the first 3 octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. This will block all 254 addresses, so you will not have to enter them by hand. As all the IPs you include in this section will be listed, you can quickly unblock any of them by clicking the Delete button relevant to the particular IP.