If you see a major increase in the traffic to your site and if after you check the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from areas all over the world or from other web servers, your Internet site is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Those programs go through random sites looking to log in to their administration area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below any sort of article where this sort of an option is provided. The fact is that, that is something rather frequent lately, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you may block them, so the bots will not be able to access your website in any way. Needless to say, you can block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your website.

IP Blocking in Shared Website Hosting

If you have a shared website hosting account with our company and you wish to block one or a few IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, that is integrated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. Through a rather simple interface, you'll be able to stop any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it takes to complete that is to log inside to your CP, to navigate to the IP Blocking section, to pick a certain domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to type in the IP address. You'll not need to do anything complex if you'd like to block a whole network - you'll 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 will be listed inside the very same section, so you will be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with simply a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our semi-dedicated server accounts include a really simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will permit you to prohibit individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your sites with no more thanseveral clicks and you won't have any difficulties to accomplish that even if that's your first website hosting account. When you go to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you will only have to choose the domain or subdomain in question from a drop-down list, then type the IP address inside a box that you will see there and you will be ready. To prohibit the access for an entire network, you need to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you type in 123.123. and don't type anything in the third and fourth positions, our web server shall deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.