If you notice a major increase in the traffic to your site and if after you examine the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from countries around the world or from other web servers, your site is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Such programs go through random websites attempting to log in to their administration area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments beneath every article where such an option is available. However, that 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 won't be able to access your site in any way. Of course, you are able to block IPs even if you allow only people from particular countries to access your website.

IP Blocking in Website Hosting

If you have a website hosting account with our company and you would like to block one or a few IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, that is incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. By using a pretty simple interface, you are able to prevent any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it requires to do this is to log inside to your CP, to check out the IP Blocking section, to choose a certain domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You'll not have to do anything challenging if you want to block a whole network - you'll simply have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot will block the full range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed within the same section, so you'll be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You will be able to block IP addresses effortlessly and stop the unwelcome traffic to any website hosted within a semi-dedicated server account with us, considering the fact that we offer a very easy-to-use tool to do that, that's part of our Hepsia hosting CP. Even if you have never addressed such matters in the past, you will not have any difficulties, because our tool includes a very user-friendly interface. Once you navigate to the IP blocking section of the Control Panel, you shall find a full list of all the domains and subdomains that you've added inside the Hosted Domains section. All you need to do to block an IP address is pick the desired domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and input the IP inside the box below. The change shall take effect instantly, so you will not get any traffic from this address in the future. Removing an IP from the blocked list is equally quick.