In case you notice a big increase in the traffic to your website and in case after you look into the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from locations around the world or from other servers, your website is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Those pieces of software go through random websites looking to log in to their administration area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below every article where this sort of an option is provided. Regrettably, that is something quite 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 won't be able to access your Internet site in any way. Obviously, you can block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your site.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

If you have a shared hosting account with our company and you want to block one or a number of IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, that is included in our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Using a really simple interface, you could stop any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it requires to perform that is to log in to your Control Panel, to go to the IP Blocking section, to select a specific domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You shall not have to do anything complex if you wish to block an entire network - you will just need to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot will block the full range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed in the exact same section, so you will be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with only a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our semi-dedicated server accounts feature a very simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that'll allow you to prohibit individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your websites with onlya couple of clicks and you shall not have any difficulties to do that even if that is your first hosting account. As soon as you navigate to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia CP, you'll just need to pick the domain or subdomain you want from a drop-down list, then type the IP address in a box that you'll see there and you will be good to go. To limit the access for a whole network, you need to leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you type in 123.123. and don't type anything inside the third and fourth positions, our hosting server shall deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.