If you notice a considerable increase in the traffic to your site and in case after you look into the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from places around the world or from other web servers, your site is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Those pieces of software go through random Internet sites attempting to log in to their administration area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below every article where this sort of an option is offered. However, this is something rather popular lately, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you'll be able to block them, so the bots shall not be able to access your Internet site in any way. Of course, you are 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 our company and you wish to block one or a number of IP addresses, you may use the IP Blocking tool, that is included in our in-house built Hepsia CP. By using a very simple interface, you could prevent any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it requires to do this is to log inside to your CP, to visit the IP Blocking section, to choose a certain domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to type in the IP address. You shall not need to do anything difficult if you want 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 whole range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed within the exact same section, so you'll be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with simply a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts feature a rather simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that'll permit you to restrict individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your websites with simplyseveral clicks and you shall not have any issues to do that even if that is your first hosting account. Once you check out the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia CP, you'll only need to select the domain or subdomain in question from a drop-down list, then type in the IP address in a box that you will see there and you will be all set. To prohibit the access for an entire network, you will need to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you input 123.123. and do not type in anything within the third and fourth positions, our web server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.