If you see a major increase in the online traffic to your site and if after you look at the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from countries around the world or from other servers, your website is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Those pieces of software go through random sites aiming to log in to their administration area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under any sort of article where such an option is made available. The fact is that, that's something rather common lately, 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. Needless to say, you'll be able to block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your site.

IP Blocking in Shared Web Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool comes with the innovative Hepsia hosting Control Panel, offered with all shared web hosting accounts. It will enable you to block addresses with simply a couple of clicks. No coding abilities are needed, due to the fact that you'll use an intuitive interface - you just need to choose a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and enter the IP address that you would like to be blocked. You will be able to see all the IP addresses that you have added inside the same section and whitelisting each of them shall take just a click. If you notice your Internet site is being flooded by various IPs, you shall be able to block an entire IP range as well. This may be completed by omitting the last number of the address. For instance, if you wish to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you just need to input 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our semi-dedicated server accounts come with a rather simple-to-use IP blocking tool, which will enable you to prohibit individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your sites with no more thanseveral clicks and you will not have any difficulties to accomplish that even if that is your first web hosting account. Once you navigate to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia CP, you will just have to pick the domain or subdomain you want 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'll have to leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you input 123.123. and do not type in anything within the third and fourth positions, our server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.