If you notice a large increase in the online traffic to your Internet site and if after you check the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from countries around the world or from other servers, your site is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. Such programs go through random sites attempting to log in to their administrator area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments beneath every article where this sort of an option is available. However, that is something relatively popular nowadays, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you'll be able to block them, so the bots will not be able to access your Internet site in any way. Naturally, you are able to block IPs even if you allow only people from particular countries to access your website.

IP Blocking in Shared Website Hosting

If you buy a shared website hosting service from us, you'll be able to see in depth traffic statistics for all your Internet sites and if you notice that a large amount of the visits to any of them aren't legitimate, you'll be able to block the IP addresses which have produced the most traffic using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is extremely simple - select the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then input the IP address that you'd like to block and save the change. All of the addresses that you've blacklisted will show up inside the same exact section of the Control Panel, so you can always remove any of them and allow it to access your website again. You can block whole IP ranges through the tool as well - you just have to leave 1 or 2 octets from the address blank. As an example, entering 1.2.3. will block all 254 IPs from 1.2.3.1 to 1.2.3.255.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your sites in a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you wish to block one or several IP addresses sooner or later, you can benefit from the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we have included in our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With just a couple of clicks, you shall be able to block particular IPs or whole ranges, if necessary. All you will have to do is pick out any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, decide if the blocking should be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder which is part of the Internet site, and then type in the IP address you want to block. For an IP range, you simply have to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address based on the size of the network you want to block. All of the addresses which you have restricted will be listed inside the very same section and if you wish to whitelist any one of them, you shall be able to do it with only a click anytime.