If you notice a large increase in the online traffic to your site and if after you examine the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from locations all over the world or from other servers, your Internet site is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Such programs go through random Internet sites aiming to log in to their administrator area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments beneath every article where this kind of an option is provided. Unfortunately, that's something rather frequent in recent times, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you can block them, so the bots won't be able to access your website in any way. Certainly, 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 our company and you would like to block one or several IP addresses, you may use the IP Blocking tool, that's incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Using a rather simple interface, you can restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it requires to complete this is to log within 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 have to do anything complicated if you would like to block an entire network - you'll simply have 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 will be listed inside the very same section, so you will be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your sites inside a semi-dedicated server account with us and you want to block one or several IP addresses eventually, you are able to take advantage of the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we've supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With simply a few clicks, you shall be able to block particular IPs or whole ranges, if required. All you will need to do is select any 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 which is part of the site, and then type in the IP address you want to block. For an IP range, you simply need to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address depending on the size of the network you want to block. Each of the addresses that you've restricted shall be listed inside the exact same section and if you would like to whitelist any one of them, you shall be able to do it with only a mouse click anytime.