In case you notice a major increase in the online traffic to your site and in case after you look at the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from locations across the globe or from other web servers, your site is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. These pieces of software go through random sites aiming to log in to their administration area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below any article where this kind of an option is offered. However, that's something relatively common these days, 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 site in any way. Obviously, you'll be able to block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your site.

IP Blocking in Shared Website Hosting

If you have a shared website hosting account with us and you wish to block one or a few IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, that's included in our in-house built Hepsia CP. Using a really simple interface, you'll be able to prevent any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it requires to complete this is to log in to your CP, to visit the IP Blocking section, to select a certain domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You'll not need to do anything challenging if you would like 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 entire range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed in the very same section, so you'll be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with only a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your websites within a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you would like to block one or a number of IP addresses eventually, you may leverage the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we've supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With a couple of clicks, you will be able to block specific IPs or entire ranges, if necessary. All you shall need to do is select any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, choose if the blocking must be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that is part of the site, and then type in 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 based on the size of the network that you want to block. Each of the addresses which you have restricted shall be listed in the exact same section and if you wish to whitelist any of them, you shall be able to do it with simply a click whenever you want.