If you notice a considerable increase in the online traffic to your website and if after you examine the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from places across the globe or from other web servers, your site is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Those pieces of software go through random websites looking to log in to their administrator area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under any sort of article where this kind of an option is provided. Regrettably, that's something quite popular nowadays, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you may block them, so the bots will not be able to access your website in any way. Naturally, you may block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your site.

IP Blocking in Shared Website Hosting

Our shared website hosting plans provide an IP blocking tool, so if you'd like to limit the access to your Internet sites, you will be able to do this with only a couple of mouse clicks. The tool is included with the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all accounts and that's very easy to use. As soon as you log in and check out the IP blocking section, you shall just have to select a domain or a subdomain hosted in the account and type the IP address that should be blocked. Our system enables you to block entire networks also, so if you input 123.123.123., for instance, this'll block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your Internet sites. If you want to whitelist an IP at some point, you may unblock it with a click from the same section.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your sites in a semi-dedicated server account with us and you need to block one or a number of IP addresses eventually, you are able to leverage the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we have supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With just a couple of clicks, you'll be able to block individual IPs or entire ranges, if needed. All you will need to do is pick any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, select if the blocking should be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that's part of the Internet site, and then enter the IP address that you would like to block. For an IP range, you simply need to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address with regards to the size of the network which you want to block. All the addresses you have restricted shall be listed within the same section and if you would like to whitelist any of them, you'll be able to do it with just a click anytime.