In case you notice a large increase in the online traffic to your Internet site and in case after you look at the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from countries across the world or from other servers, your site is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. These pieces of software go through random sites attempting to log in to their administration area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below any sort of article where this kind of an option is provided. Unfortunately, that is something relatively common these days, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you'll be able to block them, so the bots will be unable to access your Internet site in any way. Naturally, 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 Website Hosting

If you get a Linux shared website hosting from our company, you'll be able to see comprehensive traffic stats for all of your Internet sites and if you notice that a large amount of the visits to each of them are not real, you could block the IP addresses which have produced the most traffic via our IP Blocking tool. The interface is extremely simple - choose the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then input the IP address that you'd like to block and save the change. All of the addresses which you have blacklisted will show up inside the same section of the CP, so that you can always remove any of them and enable it to access your site again. You are able to block whole IP ranges via the tool as well - you just need to leave 1 or 2 octets from the address blank. For instance, entering 1.2.3. will block all 254 IPs from 1.2.3.1 to 1.2.3.255.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our semi-dedicated server accounts come with a very simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that'll allow you to restrict individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your Internet sites with justa few mouse clicks and you will not have any problems to achieve that even if that's your first web hosting account. When you navigate to 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 input the IP address inside a box that you will see there and you will be good to go. To prohibit the access for an entire network, you will need to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you type in 123.123. and do not type in anything inside the third and fourth positions, our web server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.