If you see a major increase in the online traffic to your site and in case after you look into the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from countries across the globe or from other servers, your Internet site is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. These pieces of software go through random Internet sites seeking to log in to their admin area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments underneath any article where this kind of an option is available. Unfortunately, that is something quite frequent these days, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you may block them, so the bots won't be able to access your site in any way. Obviously, you can block IPs even if you allow only people from particular countries to access your website.

IP Blocking in Shared Website Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool comes with the innovative Hepsia hosting Control Panel, offered with all shared website hosting accounts. It will allow you to block addresses with only a few clicks. No coding abilities are required, as you will use an intuitive interface - you just need to pick a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and enter the IP address that you want to be blocked. You will be able to see all the IP addresses you have added inside the same section and whitelisting each of them shall take only a click. If you notice your site is being flooded by numerous IPs, you will be able to block a whole IP range too. This can be done by omitting the last number of the address. For example, if you wish to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you only need to enter 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting CP, offered with our semi-dedicated servers, will allow you to solve the problem with unwanted traffic very efficiently. It incorporates an IP blocking tool in which you may add IP addresses with just several mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains you have in the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only have to pick the one you need and then type in the IP address which should be blocked. If you want to block a whole range, a C-class network for instance, you just have to input the first 3 octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That will block all 254 addresses, so you'll not need to type them manually. Considering that all the IPs which you include in this section shall be listed, you can very easily unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button associated with the particular IP.