In case you notice a major increase in the traffic to your website and in case after you look at the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from places all over the world or from other web servers, your Internet site is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Such 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 every article where this sort of an option is provided. However, that is something quite frequent these days, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you can block them, so the bots will not be able to access your site in any way. Of course, you'll be able to block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your Internet 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 a few IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, which is incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. Through a really simple interface, you are able to stop any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it takes to do that is to log within to your CP, to check out the IP Blocking section, to pick a certain domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You shall not need to do anything challenging if you want to block an entire network - you'll just have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot shall block the entire range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed inside the exact same section, so you shall be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

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