In case you notice a large increase in the online traffic to your website and if after you examine the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from areas all over the world or from other servers, your Internet site is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. Such programs go through random websites aiming to log in to their administrator area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments underneath every article where this kind of an option is made available. Regrettably, this is something relatively common in recent times, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you could block them, so the bots won't be able to access your website in any way. Of course, you'll be able to block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your Internet site.

IP Blocking in Web Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool is included with the ground breaking Hepsia hosting Control Panel, offered with all web hosting accounts. It shall permit you to block addresses with simply several mouse clicks. No coding abilities are needed, as you shall use an intuitive interface - you just need to select a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and input the IP address that you'd like to be blocked. You shall be able to see all the IP addresses which you have added inside the very same section and whitelisting each of them shall take simply a click. If you notice that your site is being flooded by different IPs, you will be able to block an entire IP range as well. This could be completed by omitting the last number of the address. For example, if you would like to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you just have to type in 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with our semi-dedicated services, will enable you to solve the challenge with unwanted traffic very efficiently. It comes with an IP blocking tool where you may add IP addresses with only a few mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains which you have inside the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you just need to select the one you need and then type the IP address that needs to be blocked. If you want to block a whole range, a C-class network for instance, you just need to enter the first 3 octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. This will block all 254 addresses, so you shall not have to input them by hand. Because all the IPs that you include in this section shall be listed, you can easily unblock any of them by clicking the Delete button relevant to the particular IP.