If you notice a large increase in the traffic to your site and in case after you look at the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from places around the world or from other servers, your Internet site is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. These programs go through random sites looking to log in to their administration area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments beneath any article where such an option is made available. Unfortunately, that's something quite popular lately, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you can block them, so the bots will be unable to access your Internet site in any way. Of course, you can block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your website.

IP Blocking in Shared Website Hosting

Our shared website hosting plans provide an IP blocking tool, so in case you'd like to limit the access to your sites, you will be able to do so with only a couple of clicks. The tool is provided with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all accounts and that is quite simple to use. As soon as you log in and visit the IP blocking section, you'll just need to pick a domain or a subdomain hosted within the account and type in the IP address which should be blocked. Our system allows you to block whole networks also, so if you enter 123.123.123., for instance, this'll block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your websites. If you wish to whitelist an IP at some point, you may unblock it with just a click from the same section.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts feature a very simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that'll permit you to prohibit individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your sites with simplya few clicks and you shall not have any issues to achieve that even if that's your first web hosting account. As soon as you go to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you will only need to choose the domain or subdomain you need from a drop-down list, then input the IP address in a box which you'll see there and you will be good to go. To prohibit the access for an entire network, you must leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you enter 123.123. and don't type anything in the third and fourth positions, our server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.