In case you notice a significant increase in the online traffic to your site and in case after you check the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from areas all over the world or from other web servers, your website is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. Those programs go through random websites seeking to log in to their administrator area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments underneath any article where this sort of an option is made available. Unfortunately, that is something quite frequent these days, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you could block them, so the bots shall not be able to access your Internet site in any way. Needless to say, you are able to block IPs even if you allow only people from particular countries to access your site.

IP Blocking in Shared Website Hosting

If you have a shared website hosting account with us and you would like to block one or a few IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, which is integrated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. By using a really simple interface, you could prevent any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it requires to do that is to log in to your CP, to visit the IP Blocking section, to select a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You shall not need to do anything complex if you want to block an entire network - you will just have 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 in the same section, so you shall be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with only a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your Internet sites inside a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you wish to block one or several IP addresses eventually, you'll be able to leverage the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we've supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With simply a few mouse clicks, you'll be able to block certain IPs or whole ranges, if necessary. All you'll have to do is select any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, choose if the blocking needs to be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that's part of the site, and then type the IP address that you'd like to block. For an IP range, you just need to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address in accordance with the size of the network which you want to block. All the addresses which you have restricted shall be listed inside the exact same section and if you wish to whitelist any of them, you'll be able to do it with only a click whenever you want.