If you see a large increase in the online traffic to your website and in case after you check the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from locations all over the world or from other servers, your site is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. Such programs go through random sites aiming to log in to their admin area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below every article where this type of an option is made available. However, this is something relatively frequent in recent times, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you'll be able to block them, so the bots won't be able to access your website in any way. Of course, you are able to block IPs even if you allow only people from particular countries to access your site.

IP Blocking in Shared Website Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool is included with the advanced Hepsia hosting Control Panel, offered with all shared website hosting accounts. It will permit you to block addresses with only several mouse clicks. No coding abilities are required, as you will use an intuitive interface - you just need to select a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and enter the IP address you want to be blocked. You shall be able to see all the IP addresses which you have added within the same section and whitelisting each of them will take simply a click. If you notice that your Internet site is being flooded by various IPs, you shall be able to block an entire IP range too. This can be done by omitting the last number of the address. For example, if you would like to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you simply have to type in 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You will be able to block IP addresses effortlessly and stop the undesirable traffic to any site hosted in a semi-dedicated server account with us, as we offer a very easy-to-use tool to do that, that's our Hepsia hosting CP. Even if you have never addressed this kind of issues in the past, you shall not have any difficulties, considering that our tool features a very user-friendly interface. Once you go to the IP blocking section of the CP, you will find a full list of all the domains and subdomains that you have added inside the Hosted Domains section. All you have to do to block an IP address is select the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and type in the IP inside the box below. The change shall take effect straightaway, so you will not get any traffic from this address in the future. Taking away an IP from the blocked list is equally simple.