In case you notice a large increase in the traffic to your website and if after you check the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from locations around the world or from other web servers, your Internet site is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. These programs go through random sites attempting to log in to their administrator area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments underneath every article where such an option is available. Unfortunately, that's something rather frequent in recent times, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you may block them, so the bots will be unable to access your website in any way. Needless to say, you'll be able to block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your Internet site.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

If you have a shared hosting account with us and you want to block one or several IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, which is integrated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. Using a very simple interface, you are able to stop any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it takes to perform this is to log within to your Control Panel, to visit the IP Blocking section, to choose a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You will not need to do anything challenging if you wish to block an entire network - you will simply have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot shall block the entire range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed in the same exact section, so you'll be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with only a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your websites within a semi-dedicated server account with us and you need to block one or a few IP addresses sooner or later, you'll be able to leverage the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we have supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With simply a couple of mouse clicks, you will be able to block particular IPs or entire ranges, if needed. All you'll need to do is pick any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, choose if the blocking should be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that's part of the website, and then input the IP address that you'd like to block. For an IP range, you only need to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address with regards to the size of the network you want to block. All of the addresses that you have restricted will be listed inside the same section and if you want to whitelist any one of them, you will be able to do it with simply a mouse click whenever you want.