If you notice a significant increase in the traffic to your Internet site and if after you look into the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from areas across the world or from other servers, your site is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. These pieces of software go through random Internet sites looking to log in to their administrator area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments underneath every article where this type of an option is offered. However, that is something quite frequent lately, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you could block them, so the bots won't be able to access your Internet site in any way. Needless to say, you can block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your Internet site.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

If you have a shared hosting account with our company and you wish to block one or a few IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, which is integrated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Through a very simple interface, you'll be able to restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it takes to do this is to log inside to your CP, to visit the IP Blocking section, to pick a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You shall not have to do anything complicated 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 will be listed inside the same exact section, so you will be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with just a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, offered with our semi-dedicated servers, will permit you to solve the problem with unwanted traffic very easily and quickly. It incorporates an IP blocking tool where you could add IP addresses with only a few clicks. All domains and subdomains you have in the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only need to pick the one you need and then input the IP address that needs to be blocked. If you would like to block an entire range, a C-class network for example, you simply need to input the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. This will block all 254 addresses, so you'll not have to type in them by hand. As all the IPs that you include in this section will be listed, you could effortlessly unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button associated with the particular IP.