If you notice a significant increase in the traffic to your website and if after you check the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from locations all over the world or from other servers, your website is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Such pieces of software go through random Internet sites seeking to log in to their administrator area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments underneath any article where this type of an option is available. Unfortunately, that is something rather common these days, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you may block them, so the bots will be unable to access your Internet site in any way. Obviously, you can block IPs even if you allow only people from particular countries to access your site.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

Our Linux shared hosting include an IP blocking tool, so in case you want to restrict the access to your sites, it shall be able to do so with a few mouse clicks. The tool is included with the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all accounts and which is a breeze to use. As soon as you log in and check out the IP blocking section, you will just need to pick a domain or a subdomain hosted inside the account and input the IP address which needs to be blocked. Our system will permit you to block entire networks as well, so if you type 123.123.123., for instance, this will block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your sites. In case you wish to whitelist an IP at some point, you'll be able to unblock it with simply a click from the same section.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts feature a really simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will enable you to restrict individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your websites with onlya couple of clicks and you shall not have any issues to accomplish that even if that's your first website hosting account. Once you go to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia CP, you'll just need to pick the domain or subdomain you want from a drop-down list, then input the IP address inside a box that you'll see there and you will be ready. To restrict the access for a whole network, you will need to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you input 123.123. and don't enter anything inside the third and fourth positions, our hosting server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.