If you notice a major increase in the traffic to your website and in case after you examine the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from locations all over 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 websites attempting to log in to their administration area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under every article where this kind of an option is provided. The fact is that, this is something quite popular in recent times, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you'll be able to block them, so the bots shall not be able to access your site in any way. Obviously, you'll be able to block IPs even if you allow only people from particular countries to access your site.

IP Blocking in Website Hosting

Our Linux website hosting service provide an IP blocking tool, so if you'd like to limit the access to your websites, you'll be able to do this with several mouse clicks. The tool is part of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all accounts and which is very easy to use. As soon as you log in and visit the IP blocking section, you'll just have to select 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 as well, so if you type 123.123.123., for example, this shall block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your sites. In case you want to whitelist an IP at some point, you'll be able to unblock it with simply a click from the same section.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with our semi-dedicated service, will permit you to solve the challenge with unwanted traffic very easily and quickly. It features an IP blocking tool in which you may add IP addresses with a few clicks. All domains and subdomains that you have inside the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you just need to pick the one you need and then input the IP address that has to be blocked. If you want to block a whole range, a C-class network for example, you just need to input the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. This will block all 254 addresses, so you'll not have to type them manually. As all the IPs you add in this section will be listed, you may easily unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button relevant to the given IP.