In case you notice a big increase in the traffic to your website and if after you examine the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from countries all over the world or from other servers, your site is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Those pieces of software go through random sites seeking to log in to their administration area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under any article where such an option is available. Regrettably, this is something rather common lately, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you could block them, so the bots won't be able to access your website 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 Web Hosting

If you have a web hosting account with our company and you wish to block one or a number of IP addresses, you may use the IP Blocking tool, that is included in our in-house built Hepsia CP. Through a pretty simple interface, you'll be able to stop any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it takes to do that is to log within to your CP, to navigate to the IP Blocking section, to choose a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to type in the IP address. You will not have to do anything difficult if you wish to block a whole network - you'll simply have 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 within the same exact section, so you will be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with simply a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our semi-dedicated server accounts feature a really simple-to-use IP blocking tool, which will allow you to prohibit individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your Internet sites with simplya few mouse clicks and you will not have any issues 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 CP, you'll only have to choose the domain or subdomain in question from a drop-down list, then enter the IP address in a box that you'll see there and you will be ready. To prohibit the access for a whole network, you will need to leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you enter 123.123. and do not enter 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.