If you see a large increase in the traffic to your Internet site and in case after you examine the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from countries across the world or from other web servers, your Internet site is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Such pieces of software go through random websites looking to log in to their administrator area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below any article where this kind of an option is provided. However, this is something quite popular in recent times, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you can block them, so the bots won't be able to access your site in any way. Naturally, you may block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your site.

IP Blocking in Hosting

Our Linux hosting include an IP blocking tool, so if you would like to restrict the access to your Internet sites, it shall be able to do this with a few mouse clicks. The tool is included with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all accounts and that is very simple to use. When you log in and visit the IP blocking section, you'll just have to select a domain or a subdomain hosted in the account and enter the IP address which should be blocked. Our system will allow you to block whole networks as well, so if you input 123.123.123., for instance, this shall block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your websites. If you would like to whitelist an IP at some point, you'll be able to unblock it with just a click from the same section.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our semi-dedicated server accounts feature a really simple-to-use IP blocking tool, which will permit you to prohibit individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your sites with simplyseveral clicks and you shall not have any problems to accomplish that even if this is your first hosting account. As soon as you visit the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you'll just have to pick the domain or subdomain you need from a drop-down list, then type in the IP address inside a box which you'll see there and you will be good to go. To restrict the access for a whole network, you need to leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you input 123.123. and don't type anything inside the third and fourth positions, our web server shall deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.