If you notice a large increase in the online traffic to your website and in case after you look into the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from countries around the world or from other servers, your site is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Such programs go through random websites seeking to log in to their admin area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments beneath any sort of article where such an option is available. The fact is that, this is something rather common in recent times, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you can block them, so the bots will not be able to access your website in any way. Certainly, you can block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your Internet site.

IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting account with us and you want to block one or a few IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, that is integrated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Using a rather simple interface, you can stop any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it requires to perform that is to log in to your CP, to visit the IP Blocking section, to pick a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You simply won't have to do anything difficult if you want to block a whole network - you'll just need to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot will block the entire range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed within the same section, so you will be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with only a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

You'll be able to block IP addresses with ease and stop the unwelcome traffic to any site hosted within a semi-dedicated server account with us, because we offer a really easy-to-use tool to do that, that's offered with our Hepsia hosting CP. Even if you haven't tackled this kind of problems in the past, you shall not have any difficulties, as our tool features a very user-friendly interface. Once you visit the IP blocking section of the Control Panel, you shall find a full list of all the domains and subdomains that you've added within the Hosted Domains section. All you should do to block an IP address is select the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and input the IP within the box below. The change will 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 just as uncomplicated.