If you notice a considerable increase in the traffic to your website and in case after you check the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from areas across the world or from other web servers, your website is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. These pieces of software go through random sites attempting to log in to their administration area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below every article where such an option is provided. Unfortunately, this is something rather popular these days, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you can block them, so the bots will not be able to access your site in any way. Needless to say, you are able to block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your website.

IP Blocking in Website Hosting

If you get a website hosting service from our company, you will be able to see detailed traffic stats for all your Internet sites and if you notice that many of the visits to any of them are not real, you can block the IP addresses that have generated the most traffic by using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is incredibly simple - select the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then type in the IP address you want to block and save the change. All the addresses that you've blacklisted shall appear inside the same section of the Control Panel, so you can always remove any of them and permit it to access your Internet site again. You could block entire IP ranges using the tool as well - you simply need to leave one or two 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 feature a very simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will allow you to prohibit individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your sites with justa couple of mouse clicks and you will not have any issues to accomplish that even if this is your first website hosting account. As soon as you go to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you will simply have to choose the domain or subdomain you need from a drop-down list, then type in the IP address in a box that you will see there and you will be ready. To limit the access for a whole network, you have to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you input 123.123. and don't type in anything in the third and fourth positions, our web server shall deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.