If you notice a large increase in the online traffic to your website and if after you examine the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from locations across the world or from other servers, your Internet site is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Those 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 sort of article where such an option is offered. Unfortunately, that's something relatively common lately, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you could block them, so the bots will not be able to access your site in any way. Obviously, you may block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your website.

IP Blocking in Shared Website Hosting

Our shared website hosting include an IP blocking tool, so in case you'd like to restrict the access to your sites, you will be able to do this with just a couple of clicks. The tool is part of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all accounts and that is quite simple to use. As you log in and navigate to the IP blocking section, you shall just have to pick a domain or a subdomain hosted in the account and type in the IP address which should be blocked. Our system will enable you to block entire networks as well, so if you enter 123.123.123., for instance, this'll block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your websites. If you would like to whitelist an IP at some point, you can unblock it with simply a mouse click from the same section.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your Internet sites within a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you need to block one or several IP addresses eventually, you are able to take advantage of the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we've supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With simply a couple of mouse clicks, you will be able to block particular IPs or whole ranges, if necessary. All you shall need to do is pick any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, decide if the blocking should be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that's part of the website, and then enter the IP address that you'd like to block. For an IP range, you simply need to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address in accordance with the size of the network you want to block. All of the addresses which you have restricted shall be listed within the same section and if you want to whitelist any of them, you'll be able to do it with just a click anytime.