In case you notice a significant increase in the online traffic to your website and in case after you look at the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from countries all over the world or from other servers, your website is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. These pieces of software go through random Internet sites trying to log in to their administration area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below every article where this type of an option is provided. However, that's something rather popular lately, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you may block them, so the bots shall not be able to access your website 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 Hosting

Our hosting service feature an IP blocking tool, so if you would like to limit the access to your sites, it shall be able to do this with simply a couple of clicks. The tool is included with the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all accounts and that is super easy to use. As soon as you log in and go to the IP blocking section, you shall just have to select a domain or a subdomain hosted within the account and type in the IP address which needs to be blocked. Our system will permit you to block entire networks also, so if you type 123.123.123., for example, this will 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

If you host your sites within a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you need to block one or several IP addresses eventually, you can take advantage of the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we have supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With simply a couple of clicks, you will be able to block particular IPs or whole ranges, if necessary. All you shall need to do is pick any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, decide if the blocking should be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder which is part of the Internet site, and then type in the IP address that you would like to block. For an IP range, you only need to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address depending on the size of the network which you want to block. All the addresses that you've restricted shall be listed within the same section and if you would like to whitelist any one of them, you will be able to do it with a mouse click anytime.