If you see a considerable increase in the online traffic to your website and if after you examine the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from areas across the globe or from other servers, your Internet site is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. These programs go through random websites seeking to log in to their administration area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below any sort of article where this sort of an option is offered. Regrettably, that's something quite common in recent times, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you'll be able to block them, so the bots will be unable to access your website in any way. Needless to say, you may block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your site.

IP Blocking in Hosting

If you have a hosting account with us and you want to block one or several IP addresses, you may use the IP Blocking tool, which is incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. Using a very simple interface, you can stop any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it requires to do that is to log within to your CP, to check out the IP Blocking section, to select a specific domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You won't have to do anything complex if you wish 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 will block the full range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed inside the same exact section, so you'll be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with only a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting CP, provided with our semi-dedicated hosting plans, will enable you to solve the problem with unwanted traffic very easily and quickly. It includes an IP blocking tool in which you can add IP addresses with a few mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains which you have in the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you simply have to select the one you need and then enter the IP address that has to be blocked. If you want to block a whole range, a C-class network for example, you just need to enter the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That will block all 254 addresses, so you'll not have to input them manually. Considering that all the IPs which you add in this section shall be listed, you may quickly unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button related to the given IP.