In case you notice a large increase in the online traffic to your site and in case after you look at the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from countries all over the world or from other servers, your website is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Such pieces of software go through random Internet sites seeking to log in to their administrator area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below any sort of article where this sort of an option is available. Unfortunately, this is something rather common in recent times, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you'll be able to block them, so the bots won't be able to access your website in any way. Obviously, you may block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your Internet site.

IP Blocking in Shared Website Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool is part of the advanced Hepsia hosting Control Panel, provided with all shared website hosting accounts. It'll enable you to block addresses with several clicks. No coding abilities are necessary, due to the fact that you'll use an intuitive interface - you just have to pick a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and input the IP address that you would like to be blocked. You will be able to see all the IP addresses that you have added in the very same section and whitelisting any of them will take simply a click. If you notice that your website is being flooded by numerous IPs, you shall be able to block an entire IP range also. This may be done by omitting the last number of the address. For example, if you need to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you just have to input 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

You'll be able to block IP addresses with ease and stop the unwelcome traffic to any Internet site hosted inside a semi-dedicated server account with us, since we offer a rather easy-to-use tool to do that, which is part of our Hepsia hosting CP. Even if you have not dealt with this kind of issues in the past, you will not have any difficulties, as our tool features a very user-friendly interface. As soon as you go to the IP blocking section of the Control Panel, you shall find a complete list of all the domains and subdomains which you have added within the Hosted Domains section. All you have to do to block an IP address is pick the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then type the IP within the box below. The change shall 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 equally simple.