If you notice a major increase in the online traffic to your site and in case after you look at the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from locations 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 websites seeking to log in to their administration area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below any sort of article where this kind of an option is made available. The fact is that, this is something relatively frequent nowadays, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you may block them, so the bots will not be able to access your Internet site in any way. Of course, you'll be 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 wish to block one or a number of IP addresses, you may use the IP Blocking tool, which is included in our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. By using a rather simple interface, you'll be able to restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it takes to perform that is to log in to your CP, to go to the IP Blocking section, to choose a certain domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You'll not need to do anything complex if you would like 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 full range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed in the same section, so you shall be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with just a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated server account with us and you need to block one or a number of IP addresses sooner or later, you can benefit from the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we've included in our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With a few clicks, you will be able to block specific IPs or entire ranges, if required. All you shall need to do is pick out any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, decide if the blocking should be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that is part of the Internet site, and then input the IP address that you would like to block. For an IP range, you just need to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address in accordance with the size of the network which you want to block. All the addresses which you have restricted will be listed inside the same section and if you would like to whitelist any one of them, you will be able to do it with simply a click whenever you want.