If you notice a significant increase in the online traffic to your Internet site and in case after you check the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from areas all over the world or from other servers, your Internet site is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. Such pieces of software go through random sites looking to log in to their admin area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below any sort of article where such an option is provided. However, that's something rather common nowadays, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you can block them, so the bots won't be able to access your website in any way. Of course, you can block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your site.

IP Blocking in Hosting

If you have a hosting account with us and you wish to block one or a few IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, that's integrated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. By using a very simple interface, you can stop any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it requires to do that is to log inside to your Control Panel, to navigate to the IP Blocking section, to select a specific domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You'll not need to do anything complicated if you want to block an entire network - you will just need to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot shall block the entire range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed within the exact same section, so you'll be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with just a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting CP, included with our semi-dedicated servers, will enable you to solve the matter with unwanted traffic very easily. It comes with an IP blocking tool in which you could add IP addresses with just a few mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains you have inside the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you simply have to select the one you need and then input the IP address that should be blocked. If you wish to block an entire range, a C-class network for instance, you just need to type the first 3 octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That will block all 254 addresses, so you shall not need to enter them by hand. Considering that all the IPs which you include in this section shall be listed, you may quickly unblock any of them by clicking the Delete button related to the particular IP.