If you notice a big 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 servers, your Internet site is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. Those pieces of software go through random websites aiming to log in to their administration area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below any article where such an option is offered. The fact is that, this is something quite frequent these days, 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 site in any way. Of course, you'll be able to block IPs even if you allow only people from particular countries to access your site.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool is part of the ground breaking Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all shared hosting accounts. It will permit you to block addresses with simply a few mouse clicks. No coding skills are necessary, since you will use an intuitive interface - you simply need to pick a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type in the IP address that you would like to be blocked. You shall be able to see all the IP addresses which you have added within the exact same section and whitelisting any of them shall take only a mouse click. If you notice your Internet site is being flooded by various IPs, you shall be able to block an entire IP range also. This could be completed by omitting the last number of the address. For example, if you need to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you only have to input 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts include a rather simple-to-use IP blocking tool, which will enable you to prohibit individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your sites with justa few mouse clicks and you won't have any difficulties to accomplish that even if this is your first web hosting account. When you visit the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you will only need to pick the domain or subdomain you want from a drop-down list, then type in the IP address inside a box which you'll see there and you will be all set. To limit the access for an entire network, you must leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you type 123.123. and do not input anything inside the third and fourth positions, our web server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.