If you notice a considerable increase in the traffic to your Internet site and in case after you look into the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from countries across the globe or from other web servers, your Internet site is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. These programs go through random websites looking to log in to their admin area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under every article where such an option is offered. Regrettably, that is something relatively common in recent times, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you can block them, so the bots shall not be able to access your Internet site in any way. Naturally, you can block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your Internet site.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

If you purchase a shared plan from us, you shall be able to see comprehensive traffic statistics for all of your websites and if you notice that a lot of the visits to any of them are not real, you are able to block the IP addresses that have created the most traffic using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is incredibly simple - choose the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then input the IP address that you'd like to block and save the change. All the addresses that you've blacklisted shall appear inside the exact same section of the CP, so that you can always remove any of them and enable it to access your website again. You can block whole IP ranges via the tool also - you simply need to leave one or two octets from the address blank. As an example, entering 1.2.3. will block all 254 IPs from 1.2.3.1 to 1.2.3.255.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts feature a very simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will permit you to prohibit individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your websites with simplyseveral mouse clicks and you shall not have any difficulties to do that even if that is your first hosting account. Once you visit the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia CP, you will simply have to choose the domain or subdomain you need from a drop-down list, then enter the IP address inside a box that you will see there and you will be good to go. To restrict the access for a whole network, you must leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you type 123.123. and do not type in anything in the third and fourth positions, our hosting server shall deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.