If you see a significant increase in the traffic to your Internet site and if after you look into the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from areas around the world or from other web servers, your site is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Such programs go through random Internet sites trying 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 sort of an option is provided. Regrettably, that is something quite common in recent times, 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. Certainly, you are able to block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your website.

IP Blocking in Web Hosting

If you have a web hosting account with our company and you would like to block one or a few IP addresses, you may use the IP Blocking tool, which is included in our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Using a rather simple interface, you are able to restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it requires to perform this is to log within to your CP, to visit the IP Blocking section, to select a certain domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You won't have to do anything challenging if you would like to block a whole network - you will just need to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot shall block the full range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed in the same section, so you shall be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our semi-dedicated server accounts feature a quite simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will allow you to prohibit individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your Internet sites with justseveral mouse clicks and you will not have any problems to do that even if that is your first hosting account. Once you navigate to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you'll just have to select the domain or subdomain you need from a drop-down list, then input the IP address inside a box that you will see there and you will be ready. To restrict the access for a whole network, you need to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you type 123.123. and don't type in anything inside the third and fourth positions, our hosting server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.