If you see a big increase in the online traffic to your Internet site and in case after you look into the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from areas across the globe or from other web servers, your Internet site is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Those pieces of software go through random websites trying to log in to their administrator area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments underneath every article where this kind of an option is offered. Regrettably, this is something rather frequent in recent times, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you may block them, so the bots shall not be able to access your website in any way. Certainly, you are able to block IPs even if you allow only people from particular countries to access your Internet site.

IP Blocking in Hosting

If you buy a hosting from us, you shall be able to see detailed traffic stats for all of your sites and if you notice that a lot of the visits to each of them are not legitimate, you could block the IP addresses which have produced the most traffic by using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is extremely simple - select the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then input the IP address you want to block and save the change. All of the addresses which you have blacklisted will show up in the same exact section of the Control Panel, so you can always remove any of them and allow it to access your site again. You'll be able to block whole IP ranges through the tool too - you simply need to leave one or two octets from the address blank. As an example, entering 1.2.3. will block all 254 IPs from 1.2.3.1 to 1.2.3.255.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts come with a rather simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that'll allow you to prohibit individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your sites with justseveral mouse clicks and you shall not have any problems to do that even if that's your first hosting account. When you navigate to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia CP, you will only have to choose the domain or subdomain in question from a drop-down list, then type in the IP address in a box that you will see there and you will be good to go. To restrict the access for a whole network, you'll have to leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you input 123.123. and don't type in 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.