If you notice a large increase in the online traffic to your site and in case after you look into the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from locations all over the world or from other servers, your site is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Such programs go through random Internet sites aiming to log in to their admin area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below any sort of article where this sort of an option is provided. However, this is something quite popular in recent times, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you could block them, so the bots shall not be able to access your site in any way. Needless to say, you'll be able to block IPs even if you allow only people from particular countries to access your website.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

If you have a shared hosting account with our company and you want to block one or several IP addresses, you may use the IP Blocking tool, that is integrated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Through a really simple interface, you are able to restrict 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 go to the IP Blocking section, to pick a certain domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to type in the IP address. You will not need to do anything complicated if you wish to block a whole network - you'll just need to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot shall block the whole range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed in the exact same section, so you'll be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with simply a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

You will be able to block IP addresses easily and stop the unwelcome traffic to any website hosted within a semi-dedicated server account with us, as we offer a rather easy-to-use tool to do that, that is our Hepsia hosting CP. Even if you haven't dealt with this sort of matters in the past, you won't have any difficulties, since our tool features a very user-friendly interface. As you navigate to the IP blocking section of the Control Panel, you'll find a comprehensive 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 select the desired domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and enter the IP within the box below. The change shall take effect immediately, so you'll not get any traffic from this address in the future. Removing an IP from the blocked list is just as uncomplicated.