In case you notice a considerable increase in the traffic to your Internet site and in case after you check the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from countries around the world or from other web servers, your website is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. These pieces of software go through random websites trying to log in to their administration area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments underneath any article where this type of an option is provided. However, that's something relatively popular nowadays, 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 Internet site in any way. Certainly, you may block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your site.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

If you have a shared hosting account with our company and you wish to block one or several IP addresses, you may use the IP Blocking tool, that's included in our in-house built Hepsia CP. By using a pretty simple interface, you could restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it requires to perform that is to log in to your Control Panel, to visit the IP Blocking section, to choose a specific 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 would like to block an entire 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 will be listed inside the same section, so you will be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with simply a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your websites within a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you wish to block one or numerous IP addresses eventually, you can use the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we've provided with our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With several mouse clicks, you shall be able to block specific IPs or entire ranges, if necessary. All you shall have to do is select any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, select if the blocking must be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that's part of the website, and then input the IP address that you want to block. For an IP range, you just need to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address depending on the size of the network you want to block. Each of the addresses you have restricted shall be listed in the exact same section and if you would like to whitelist any of them, you will be able to do it with a click whenever you want.