If you notice a significant increase in the traffic to your Internet site and if after you look at the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from locations across the world or from other servers, your website is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Such pieces of software go through random sites seeking to log in to their admin area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below every article where this sort of an option is made available. Regrettably, that's something rather common these days, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you may block them, so the bots will be unable to access your 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

Our IP Blocking tool is included with the innovative Hepsia hosting CP, provided with all shared hosting accounts. It shall permit you to block addresses with just a few clicks. No coding abilities are necessary, due to the fact that you will use an intuitive interface - you just need to choose a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type the IP address that you would like to be blocked. You'll be able to see all the IP addresses that you've added in the same section and whitelisting each of them will take simply a mouse click. If you notice that your site is being flooded by different IPs, you will be able to block a whole IP range too. This may be performed 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 simply have to input 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, provided with our semi-dedicated servers, will permit you to solve the matter with unwanted traffic very easily and quickly. It comes with an IP blocking tool in which you may add IP addresses with only several clicks. All domains and subdomains which you have inside the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only have to choose the one you need and then enter the IP address that has to be blocked. If you wish to block an entire range, a C-class network for instance, you just have to enter the first 3 octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That will block all 254 addresses, so you will not need to enter them by hand. Since all the IPs which you include in this section will be listed, you can very easily unblock any of them by clicking the Delete button related to the particular IP.