If you see a major increase in the online traffic to your Internet site and if after you check the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from places around the world or from other web servers, your site is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. These pieces of software go through random websites looking to log in to their administration area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under any article where this type of an option is made available. However, this is something rather popular these days, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you can block them, so the bots will not be able to access your site in any way. Of course, you may block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your website.

IP Blocking in Cloud Web Hosting

If you have a cloud web hosting account with us and you wish to block one or a few IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, which is included in our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. By using a rather simple interface, you could restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it requires to complete this is to log in to your Control Panel, to navigate to the IP Blocking section, to choose a certain domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You simply won't need to do anything challenging if you would like to block an entire network - you'll just have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot shall block the full range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed in the same section, so you'll be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with only a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You shall be able to block IP addresses without difficulty and stop the unwanted traffic to any Internet site hosted inside a semi-dedicated server account with us, since we offer you a very easy-to-use tool to do that, that is part of our Hepsia hosting CP. Even if you have never tackled this kind of issues in the past, you won't have any difficulties, since our tool features a very user-friendly interface. As you go to the IP blocking section of the Control Panel, you shall find a full list of all the domains and subdomains that you've added within the Hosted Domains section. What you need to do to block an IP address is choose the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and input the IP inside the box below. The change will take effect instantly, so you'll not get any traffic from this address in the future. Removing an IP from the blocked list is equally easy.