In case you notice a large increase in the traffic to your website and in case after you check the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from places all over the world or from other web servers, your site is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. Such programs go through random sites seeking to log in to their administration area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under every article where this type of an option is available. Unfortunately, that is something quite common nowadays, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you may block them, so the bots shall not be able to access your Internet site in any way. Of course, you may block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your Internet 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, that is included in our in-house built Hepsia CP. By using a rather simple interface, you'll be able to prevent 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 visit 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 won't need to do anything challenging if you want to block a whole 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 full range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed inside the exact same section, so you'll be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with just a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

You shall be able to block IP addresses effortlessly and stop the unwelcome traffic to any site hosted in a semi-dedicated server account with us, since we offer you a very easy-to-use tool to do that, that's included with our Hepsia hosting CP. Even if you haven't addressed this type of issues in the past, you shall not have any difficulties, since our tool features a very user-friendly interface. As you check out the IP blocking section of the Control Panel, you shall find a full list of all the domains and subdomains which you have added in the Hosted Domains section. All you should do to block an IP address is choose the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and input the IP within the box below. The change will take effect right away, so you'll not get any traffic from this address in the future. Taking away an IP from the blocked list is just as uncomplicated.