If you see a significant increase in the traffic to your Internet site and in case after you examine the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from countries all over the world or from other web servers, your site is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. These pieces of software go through random Internet sites seeking to log in to their administration area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under every article where this kind of an option is provided. The fact is that, that's something quite frequent these days, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you'll be able to block them, so the bots will not be able to access your site in any way. Naturally, you can block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your Internet site.

IP Blocking in Shared Website Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool is included with the revolutionary Hepsia hosting Control Panel, offered with all shared website hosting accounts. It shall enable you to block addresses with just several mouse clicks. No coding abilities are necessary, due to the fact that you shall use an intuitive interface - you just have to pick a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type in the IP address that you want to be blocked. You shall be able to see all the IP addresses that you've added in the very same section and whitelisting each of them will take just a click. If you notice your website is being flooded by numerous IPs, you will be able to block an entire IP range too. This could be completed by omitting the last number of the address. For instance, if you want to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you only need to input 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your Internet sites inside a semi-dedicated server account with us and you need to block one or a number of IP addresses sooner or later, you could benefit from the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we've included in our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With several mouse clicks, you shall be able to block individual IPs or whole ranges, if necessary. All you shall have to do is pick out any 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 is part of the website, and then enter the IP address that you would like to block. For an IP range, you simply have to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address in accordance with the size of the network that you want to block. All the addresses that you have restricted will be listed in the very same section and if you wish to whitelist any of them, you shall be able to do it with just a mouse click whenever you want.