If you notice a major 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 areas around the world or from other web servers, your site is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. These pieces of software go through random Internet sites aiming to log in to their admin area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below every article where this sort of an option is provided. However, this is something quite frequent these days, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you may block them, so the bots won't be able to access your site in any way. Of course, you can block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your website.

IP Blocking in Website Hosting

Our website hosting services offer an IP blocking tool, so in case you would like to limit the access to your websites, you'll be able to do this with simply several clicks. The tool is provided with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all accounts and that's very simple to use. As you log in and navigate to the IP blocking section, you will just have to choose a domain or a subdomain hosted within the account and enter the IP address which needs to be blocked. Our system allows you to block entire networks too, so if you type in 123.123.123., for example, this'll block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your Internet sites. In case you wish to whitelist an IP at some point, you may unblock it with simply a click from the same section.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated server account with us and you would like to block one or several IP addresses sooner or later, you'll be able to use the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we have provided with our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With simply several clicks, you'll be able to block specific IPs or entire ranges, if necessary. All you'll need to do is pick 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 that is part of the site, and then input the IP address that you'd like to block. For an IP range, you simply need to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address based on the size of the network which you want to block. All of the addresses that you have restricted shall be listed inside the very same section and if you wish to whitelist any one of them, you'll be able to do it with only a mouse click whenever you want.