In case you notice a significant increase in the online traffic to your website and if after you look into the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from countries all over the world or from other servers, your website is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. These programs go through random Internet sites trying to log in to their administration area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments underneath any article where such an option is provided. The fact is that, that's something quite popular lately, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you can block them, so the bots won't be able to access your website in any way. Obviously, you are able to block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your site.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

If you have a shared hosting account with our company and you would like to block one or a few IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, that's included in our in-house built Hepsia CP. Using a really 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 requires to complete this is to log inside to your CP, to visit the IP Blocking section, to select a specific domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You simply won't need to do anything challenging if you wish to block an entire 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 whole range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed inside the same exact section, so you'll be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts come with a very simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will allow you to restrict individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your sites with justa few mouse clicks and you shall not have any troubles to accomplish that even if that's your first website hosting account. As soon as you check out the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia CP, you will just have to choose the domain or subdomain you need from a drop-down list, then input the IP address in a box that you will see there and you will be all set. To restrict the access for an entire network, you have to leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you input 123.123. and don't input anything inside the third and fourth positions, our hosting server shall deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.