In case you notice a big increase in the online traffic to your Internet site and in case after you examine the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from areas around the world or from other servers, your site is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. These programs go through random websites seeking to log in to their administration area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments beneath every article where this sort of an option is offered. Regrettably, that is something quite common in recent times, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you can block them, so the bots won't be able to access your website in any way. Certainly, you can block IPs even if you allow only people from particular countries to access your website.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

If you have a shared hosting account with us and you would like to block one or a number of IP addresses, you may use the IP Blocking tool, that is incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. By using a really simple interface, you'll be able to prevent any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it requires to complete that is to log in to your Control Panel, to go to the IP Blocking section, to choose a certain domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You'll not need to do anything difficult if you'd like 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 whole range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed inside the 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 feature a quite simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that'll permit you to prohibit individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your websites with no more thana few clicks and you will not have any difficulties to achieve that even if that is your first website hosting account. When you visit the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you will just need to choose the domain or subdomain you need from a drop-down list, then enter the IP address inside 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 example, if you type in 123.123. and don't type in anything in the third and fourth positions, our hosting server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.