If you notice a considerable increase in the online traffic to your Internet site and if after you examine the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from countries across the globe or from other web servers, your site is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. These pieces of software go through random Internet sites seeking to log in to their administration area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments underneath any article where this type of an option is offered. However, that's something relatively frequent nowadays, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you may block them, so the bots won't be able to access your site in any way. Naturally, you are able to block IPs even if you allow only people from particular countries to access your Internet site.

IP Blocking in Shared Web Hosting

Our shared web hosting feature an IP blocking tool, so in case you want to limit the access to your websites, you will be able to do this with just a couple of clicks. The tool is part of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all accounts and that is very simple to use. As soon as you log in and check out the IP blocking section, you will just have to choose a domain or a subdomain hosted within the account and type in the IP address that should be blocked. Our system allows you to block entire networks as well, so if you type in 123.123.123., for instance, this shall block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your websites. If you would like to whitelist an IP at some point, you can unblock it with just a click from the same section.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your Internet sites within a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you would like to block one or numerous IP addresses eventually, you may leverage the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we've included in our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With several mouse clicks, you shall be able to block individual IPs or entire ranges, if necessary. All you will need to do is pick any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, choose if the blocking should be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that's part of the website, and then type the IP address that you would like to block. For an IP range, you simply need to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address with regards to the size of the network which you want to block. Each of the addresses that you have restricted shall be listed within the exact same section and if you would like to whitelist any of them, you will be able to do it with only a mouse click anytime.