If you notice a significant increase in the traffic to your site and if after you look into the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from locations across the world or from other web servers, your website is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Those programs go through random websites attempting to log in to their admin area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under any sort of article where this sort of an option is available. However, that's something quite frequent nowadays, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you could block them, so the bots won't be able to access your website in any way. Of course, you may block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your Internet site.

IP Blocking in Web Hosting

If you have a web hosting account with our company and you wish to block one or a few IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, that is included in our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. By using a really simple interface, you are able to prevent any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it requires to complete that is to log inside to your Control Panel, to check out the IP Blocking section, to select a certain domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to type in the IP address. You simply won't need to do anything challenging if you wish 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 very same section, so you shall be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with simply a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts feature a very simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will allow you to restrict individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your websites with justa couple of mouse clicks and you will not have any issues to accomplish that even if that's your first hosting account. Once you navigate to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you'll only have to choose the domain or subdomain you want from a drop-down list, then type the IP address within a box that you'll see there and you will be ready. To limit the access for an entire network, you have to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you type in 123.123. and don't type in anything within the third and fourth positions, our web server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.