In case you notice a significant increase in the online traffic to your website and if after you look into the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from areas across the globe or from other web servers, your Internet site is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Those pieces of software go through random sites aiming to log in to their administrator area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below any article where such an option is available. Unfortunately, that's something rather frequent lately, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you could block them, so the bots won't be able to access your Internet site in any way. Needless to say, you can block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your website.
IP Blocking in Shared Hosting
Our shared hosting service feature an IP blocking tool, so in case you would like to restrict the access to your Internet sites, it shall be able to do so with a few mouse clicks. The tool is part of the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all accounts and that is a breeze to use. When you log in and go to the IP blocking section, you'll just have to pick a domain or a subdomain hosted within the account and type in the IP address which needs to be blocked. Our system will allow you to block entire networks too, so if you input 123.123.123., for instance, this will block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your Internet sites. If you would like to whitelist an IP at some point, you'll be able to unblock it with a click from the same section.
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you host your sites in a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you want to block one or a number of IP addresses eventually, you may take advantage of the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we have supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With a couple of clicks, you shall be able to block individual IPs or entire ranges, if required. All you shall need to do is choose any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, select if the blocking must be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that's part of the Internet site, and then type in the IP address that you want to block. For an IP range, you simply have to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address based on the size of the network you want to block. Each of the addresses which you have restricted will be listed inside the same exact section and if you would like to whitelist any of them, you will be able to do it with a mouse click at any time.