In case you notice a major increase in the online traffic to your site and in case after you examine the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from places across the globe or from other servers, your site is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. These programs go through random sites attempting to log in to their administration area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments beneath any sort of article where this kind of an option is provided. Regrettably, that is something quite common nowadays, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you can block them, so the bots shall not be able to access your Internet site in any way. Of course, you are able to block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your site.

IP Blocking in Shared Web Hosting

If you have a shared web hosting account with us and you want to block one or a few IP addresses, you may use the IP Blocking tool, that's integrated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. Through a really simple interface, you can stop any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it takes to perform this is to log within to your CP, to check out the IP Blocking section, to pick a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You'll not have to do anything difficult if you'd like to block an entire network - you will just need to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot shall block the whole range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed within the same exact section, so you shall be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with just a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You shall be able to block IP addresses with ease and stop the unwanted traffic to any site hosted inside a semi-dedicated server account with us, as we provide a rather easy-to-use tool to do that, that's part of our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Even if you have not tackled this sort of matters in the past, you shall not have any difficulties, as our tool includes a very user-friendly interface. As you navigate to the IP blocking section of the CP, you will find a complete list of all the domains and subdomains that you have added inside the Hosted Domains section. All you have to do to block an IP address is choose the desired domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then input the IP inside the box below. The change shall take effect right away, so you'll not get any traffic from this address in the future. Taking away an IP from the blocked list is equally quick.