If you see a big increase in the traffic to your website and in case after you examine the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from places across the globe or from other web servers, your site is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. Such programs go through random websites aiming to log in to their administrator area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments underneath every article where such an option is available. However, that's something relatively frequent nowadays, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you could block them, so the bots won't be able to access your Internet site in any way. Of course, you are able to block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your Internet site.

IP Blocking in Web Hosting

If you have a web hosting account with our company and you wish to block one or a number of IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, which is incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Using a really simple interface, you are able to restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it requires to complete this is to log in to your CP, to check out the IP Blocking section, to select a certain domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to type in the IP address. You won't need to do anything complicated if you'd like to block a whole network - you will simply have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot shall 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 mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You'll be able to block IP addresses easily and stop the undesirable traffic to any Internet site hosted inside a semi-dedicated server account with our company, because we provide a rather easy-to-use tool to do that, which is included with our Hepsia hosting CP. Even if you haven't addressed this type of problems in the past, you won't have any difficulties, because our tool includes a very user-friendly interface. As soon as you visit the IP blocking section of the Control Panel, you will find a complete list of all the domains and subdomains you have added inside the Hosted Domains section. All you should do to block an IP address is select the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then enter the IP inside the box below. The change will take effect at once, so you will not get any traffic from this address in the future. Taking away an IP from the blocked list is just as quick.