If you notice a major increase in the online traffic to your website and if after you look at the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from countries across the world or from other web servers, your site is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. These pieces of software go through random websites attempting to log in to their administration area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments beneath every article where this type of an option is made available. However, this is something rather frequent in recent times, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you'll be able to block them, so the bots shall not be able to access your site in any way. Obviously, you are able to block IPs even if you allow only people from particular countries to access your site.

IP Blocking in Web Hosting

If you have a web hosting account with us and you wish to block one or a number of IP addresses, you may use the IP Blocking tool, that's included in our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Through a pretty simple interface, you'll be able to restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it takes to do this is to log within to your CP, to visit the IP Blocking section, to pick a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to type in the IP address. You won't need to do anything difficult if you would like 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 entire range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed within the exact same section, so you'll be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with simply a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our semi-dedicated server accounts include a quite simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will allow you to restrict individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your sites with justa couple of mouse clicks and you won't have any issues to do that even if that's your first web hosting account. When you go to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you'll just need to pick the domain or subdomain you need from a drop-down list, then type in the IP address within a box that you will see there and you will be good to go. To prohibit the access for a whole network, you need to leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you type 123.123. and don't type in anything inside 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.