If you see a significant increase in the online traffic to your website and in case after you check the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from areas around the world or from other web servers, your website is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Those pieces of software go through random websites attempting to log in to their administration area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below any sort of article where this kind of an option is provided. Unfortunately, this is something quite common lately, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you can block them, so the bots will be unable to access your website in any way. Certainly, you are able to block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your site.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

If you have a shared hosting account with us and you wish to block one or a few IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, which is integrated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. 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 perform that is to log in to your Control Panel, to visit the IP Blocking section, to pick a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You will not need to do anything challenging if you would like to block an entire network - you will simply have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot will block the entire range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed within the same exact section, so you will be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts feature a quite simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that'll allow you to prohibit individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your websites with justa few clicks and you won't have any issues to accomplish that even if this is your first hosting account. When you go to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia CP, you'll only have to choose the domain or subdomain you want from a drop-down list, then enter the IP address within a box that you'll see there and you will be good to go. To prohibit the access for an entire network, you must leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you type 123.123. and don't enter anything inside the third and fourth positions, our server shall deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.