If you see a major increase in the online traffic to your site and if after you examine the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from places across the world or from other web servers, your Internet site is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Such pieces of software go through random Internet sites seeking to log in to their administrator area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under any article where this sort of an option is available. Regrettably, that is something quite frequent lately, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you could block them, so the bots will be unable to access your Internet site in any way. Needless to say, you can block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your Internet site.

IP Blocking in Web Hosting

If you have a web hosting account with us and you wish to block one or a few IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, that's included in our in-house built Hepsia CP. Through a really simple interface, you could restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it takes to complete this is to log inside to your CP, to go to the IP Blocking section, to select a certain domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to type in the IP address. You'll not need to do anything complicated if you'd like to block an entire network - you'll just have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot shall 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 shall be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with simply a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts feature a really simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that'll enable you to prohibit individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your sites with no more thana couple of clicks and you shall not have any issues to accomplish that even if that's your first hosting account. Once you check out the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you'll simply have to pick the domain or subdomain in question from a drop-down list, then enter the IP address inside a box which you'll see there and you will be all set. To prohibit the access for a whole network, you have to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you type in 123.123. and don't type in anything within 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.