If you notice a major increase in the traffic to your Internet site and in case after you examine the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from areas all over the world or from other web servers, your site is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Those pieces of software go through random websites trying to log in to their administrator area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under any article where such an option is provided. Unfortunately, that's something quite popular nowadays, but if you know the IP addresses from 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. Certainly, you may block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your site.

IP Blocking in Hosting

Our Linux hosting feature an IP blocking tool, so if you would like to limit the access to your sites, you will be able to do this with only a couple of mouse clicks. The tool is part of the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all accounts and which is super easy to use. When you log in and visit the IP blocking section, you will just have to select a domain or a subdomain hosted in the account and input the IP address that needs to be blocked. Our system will permit you to block entire networks also, so if you input 123.123.123., for instance, this'll 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 may unblock it with a mouse click from the same section.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our semi-dedicated server accounts come with a really simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that'll allow you to restrict individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your sites with no more thanseveral mouse clicks and you won't have any problems to accomplish that even if that is your first website hosting account. As soon as you check out the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia CP, you will just have to pick the domain or subdomain in question from a drop-down list, then input the IP address inside a box that you will see there and you will be all set. To restrict the access for a whole network, you will need to leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you type in 123.123. and do not input anything inside the third and fourth positions, our hosting server shall deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.