If you see a considerable increase in the online traffic to your site and in case after you check the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from areas across the globe or from other servers, your website is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Those pieces of software go through random websites seeking to log in to their administrator area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments underneath any article where this sort of an option is provided. However, this is something relatively popular nowadays, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you can block them, so the bots will be unable to access your Internet site in any way. Naturally, you'll be able to block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your site.

IP Blocking in Shared Web Hosting

If you have a shared web hosting account with our company and you want to block one or a number of IP addresses, you may use the IP Blocking tool, which is integrated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. By using a pretty simple interface, you could restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it requires to complete this is to log within to your Control Panel, to go to the IP Blocking section, to select a certain domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You simply won't need to do anything complicated 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 inside the exact same section, so you'll be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with only a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our semi-dedicated server accounts include a rather simple-to-use IP blocking tool, which will permit you to restrict individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your sites with onlya few mouse clicks and you shall not have any difficulties to do that even if this is your first hosting account. As soon as you check out the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you'll only need to pick the domain or subdomain in question from a drop-down list, then input the IP address in a box that you'll see there and you will be ready. To restrict the access for an entire network, you must leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you enter 123.123. and do not input anything within the third and fourth positions, our server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.