If you notice a large increase in the traffic to your Internet site and if after you look at the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from countries all over the world or from other servers, your Internet site is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. These pieces of software go through random Internet sites trying to log in to their admin area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under any article where this sort of an option is available. Regrettably, that is something relatively popular nowadays, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you may block them, so the bots will not be able to access your Internet site in any way. Obviously, you'll be able to block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your Internet site.

IP Blocking in Shared Web Hosting

Our Linux shared web hosting services offer an IP blocking tool, so if you would like to restrict the access to your sites, it shall be able to do so with just a couple of mouse clicks. The tool is part of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all accounts and that's a breeze to use. Once you log in and go to the IP blocking section, you'll just need to pick a domain or a subdomain hosted within the account and type the IP address which needs to be blocked. Our system will allow you to block whole networks also, so if you enter 123.123.123., for instance, this shall block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your Internet sites. In case you wish to whitelist an IP at some point, you'll be able to unblock it with a click from the same section.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You'll be able to block IP addresses easily and stop the unwanted traffic to any website hosted inside a semi-dedicated server account with our company, considering the fact that we provide a really easy-to-use tool to do that, that is part of our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Even if you haven't dealt with this type of issues in the past, you will not have any difficulties, as our tool provides a very user-friendly interface. As you visit the IP blocking section of the Control Panel, you will find a full list of all the domains and subdomains that you have added in the Hosted Domains section. All you should do to block an IP address is choose the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then type the IP within the box below. The change shall take effect at once, so you will not get any traffic from this address in the future. Removing an IP from the blocked list is equally quick.