In case you notice a big increase in the traffic to your Internet site and if after you examine the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from places all over the world or from other servers, your site is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Such programs go through random sites attempting to log in to their administrator area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under any sort of article where such an option is made available. However, this is something rather frequent lately, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you could block them, so the bots will be unable to access your Internet site in any way. Needless to say, you'll be able to block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your site.

IP Blocking in Website Hosting

If you have a website hosting account with our company and you wish to block one or a few IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, which is included in our in-house built Hepsia CP. Using a pretty simple interface, you could prevent any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it requires to perform this is to log in to your Control Panel, to check out the IP Blocking section, to pick a specific domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You will not have to do anything complex if you would like to block a whole network - you'll just need to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot will block the full range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed within the same section, so you will be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with only a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts include a quite simple-to-use IP blocking tool, which will permit you to restrict individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your sites with no more thana few mouse clicks and you will not have any troubles to do that even if that is your first website hosting account. As soon as you go to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you'll only need to pick the domain or subdomain you want from a drop-down list, then type in the IP address inside a box that you will see there and you will be all set. To limit the access for a whole network, you will need to leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you type 123.123. and do not type in anything inside 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.