In case you notice a significant increase in the traffic to your site and if after you look into the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from areas across the world or from other web servers, your site is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. These programs go through random websites attempting to log in to their admin area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments beneath any article where this sort of an option is available. However, that is something quite frequent nowadays, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you may block them, so the bots won't be able to access your site in any way. Obviously, you'll be able to block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your website.

IP Blocking in Shared Web Hosting

If you have a shared web hosting account with our company and you wish to block one or a few IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, that is 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 not had a web hosting account before. All it requires to perform this is to log in to your Control Panel, to check out the IP Blocking section, to pick a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You won't have to do anything challenging if you'd 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 shall block the entire range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed within the very same section, so you'll be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your Internet sites within a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you need to block one or numerous IP addresses eventually, you are able to leverage the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we have provided with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With a few mouse clicks, you will be able to block particular IPs or entire ranges, if needed. All you will have to do is choose any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, select if the blocking should be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder which is part of the website, and then type in the IP address that you'd like to block. For an IP range, you simply have to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address depending on the size of the network that you want to block. Each of the addresses which you have restricted shall be listed within the same section and if you would like to whitelist any of them, you'll be able to do it with just a mouse click anytime.