If you see a major increase in the online traffic to your website and in case after you examine the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from locations all over the world or from other servers, your site is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. Those programs go through random websites aiming to log in to their administrator area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under any sort of article where this sort of an option is offered. Unfortunately, that is something quite frequent in recent times, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you could block them, so the bots won't be able to access your website in any way. Needless to say, you'll be able to block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your site.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

Our Linux shared packages offer an IP blocking tool, so if you want to limit the access to your Internet sites, you'll be able to do this with just several clicks. The tool is part of the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all accounts and which is very simple to use. When you log in and check out the IP blocking section, you'll just need to select a domain or a subdomain hosted inside the account and type in the IP address which needs to be blocked. Our system enables you to block entire networks also, so if you enter 123.123.123., for example, this will block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your websites. In case you want 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

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, provided with our Linux semi-dedicated packages, will permit you to solve the matter with unwanted traffic very efficiently. It features an IP blocking tool in which you can add IP addresses with just a couple of mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains which you have within the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only have to select the one you need and then input the IP address which should be blocked. If you would like to block a whole range, a C-class network for example, you just have to enter the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. This shall block all 254 addresses, so you'll not have to input them manually. Considering that all the IPs which you add in this section shall be listed, you can effortlessly unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button associated with the particular IP.