In case you notice a large increase in the online traffic to your website and in case after you look at the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from countries across the world or from other web servers, your website is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. Such programs go through random sites looking to log in to their administrator area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under any sort of article where this type of an option is made available. The fact is that, this is something rather frequent in recent times, 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 website in any way. Naturally, you are able to 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 our company and you want to block one or several IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, that's incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. Using a very simple interface, you are able to stop any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it requires to do that is to log in to your CP, to check out the IP Blocking section, to pick a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You shall not have to do anything challenging if you'd like to block a whole network - you will simply have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot will block the entire range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed in the exact same section, so you will be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you would like to block one or a few IP addresses sooner or later, you could use the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we've supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With just several clicks, you'll be able to block specific IPs or entire ranges, if needed. All you will have to do is pick out any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, choose if the blocking must be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that's part of the site, and then input the IP address that you'd like to block. For an IP range, you just need to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address depending on the size of the network which you want to block. Each of the addresses which you have restricted will be listed within the same section and if you would like to whitelist any of them, you shall be able to do it with just a click anytime.