In case you notice a big increase in the traffic to your Internet site and if after you look into the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from places around the world or from other servers, your Internet site is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. These programs go through random Internet sites aiming to log in to their administration area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under any article where this kind of an option is provided. The fact is that, that's something rather popular in recent times, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you may block them, so the bots will not be able to access your 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 Web Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool is part of the revolutionary Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all web hosting accounts. It will allow you to block addresses with only a couple of clicks. No coding skills are necessary, because you'll use an intuitive interface - you just need to pick a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and enter the IP address that you'd like to be blocked. You will be able to see all the IP addresses that you've added inside the same section and whitelisting any of them will take only a click. If you notice that your Internet site is being flooded by different IPs, you will be able to block a whole IP range as well. This could be done by omitting the last number of the address. For instance, if you need to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you only have to type in 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your Internet sites within a semi-dedicated server account with us and you want to block one or a few IP addresses sooner or later, you'll be able to use the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we have included in our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With just several mouse clicks, you will be able to block certain IPs or entire ranges, if required. All you will need to do is pick any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, choose if the blocking should be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder which is part of the website, and then input the IP address you want to block. For an IP range, you only need to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address based on the size of the network you want to block. All of the addresses that you've restricted shall be listed in the same exact section and if you want to whitelist any of them, you'll be able to do it with just a click at any time.