If you notice a large increase in the traffic to your Internet site and in case after you look at the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from locations all over the world or from other servers, your Internet site is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Such pieces of software go through random Internet sites aiming to log in to their admin area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments beneath every article where this type of an option is made available. Unfortunately, this is something rather popular in recent times, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you can block them, so the bots shall not be able to access your website in any way. Naturally, you'll be able to block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your site.

IP Blocking in Shared Web Hosting

If you buy a Linux shared web hosting from our company, you will be able to see comprehensive traffic statistics for all of your Internet sites and if you notice that many of the visits to each of them are not authentic, you can block the IP addresses that have generated the most traffic by using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is quite simple - pick the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then input the IP address that you would like to block and save the change. All of the addresses which you have blacklisted will show up in the same section of the Control Panel, so that you can always remove any of them and enable it to access your Internet site again. You'll be able to block whole IP ranges using the tool as well - you simply need to leave 1 or 2 octets from the address blank. For 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 Hosting

Our semi-dedicated server accounts include a rather simple-to-use IP blocking tool, which will enable you to prohibit individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your Internet sites with justa couple of mouse clicks and you will not have any difficulties to accomplish that even if that is your first web hosting account. As soon as you visit the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you will only have to select the domain or subdomain in question from a drop-down list, then enter the IP address in a box that you'll see there and you will be all set. To restrict the access for an entire network, you will need to leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you type 123.123. and do not enter anything inside the third and fourth positions, our hosting server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.