If you notice a large increase in the traffic to your website and if after you look into the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from places around the world or from other web servers, your site is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. Those programs go through random Internet sites looking to log in to their admin area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below every article where such an option is made available. Unfortunately, that's something rather frequent in recent times, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you could block them, so the bots shall not be able to access your Internet site in any way. Naturally, you'll be able to block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your website.

IP Blocking in Shared Website Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool comes with the revolutionary Hepsia hosting CP, offered with all shared website hosting accounts. It'll permit you to block addresses with simply several mouse clicks. No coding abilities are needed, because you shall use an intuitive interface - you just have to pick a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type in the IP address that you would like to be blocked. You will be able to see all the IP addresses you have added in the exact same section and whitelisting any of them will take only a click. If you notice your website is being flooded by different IPs, you'll be able to block an entire IP range as well. This could 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 just need to enter 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, provided with our Linux semi-dedicated hosting plans, will enable you to solve the matter with unwanted traffic very easily and quickly. It includes an IP blocking tool where you could add IP addresses with just a couple of clicks. All domains and subdomains you have inside the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only have to select the one you need and then type the IP address that should be blocked. If you would like to block an entire range, a C-class network for instance, you just have to enter the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That will block all 254 addresses, so you will not need to type in them manually. As all the IPs that you include in this section shall be listed, you can quickly unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button relevant to the given IP.