If you see a big increase in the traffic to your site and in case after you look at the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from locations across the globe or from other servers, your website is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. These programs go through random websites looking to log in to their admin area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under any sort of article where this kind of an option is offered. However, this is something relatively frequent nowadays, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you'll be able to block them, so the bots will not be able to access your site in any way. Of course, you are able to block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your website.

IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting account with our company and you would like to block one or several IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, that is included in our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Using a pretty simple interface, you'll be able to prevent any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it requires to perform this is to log inside to your CP, to go to the IP Blocking section, to pick a specific domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You won't need to do anything challenging if you want to block a whole network - you'll just need to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot will block the entire range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed inside the same exact section, so you'll be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with simply a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You'll be able to block IP addresses easily and stop the undesirable traffic to any website hosted within a semi-dedicated server account with our company, considering the fact that we offer you a very easy-to-use tool to do that, that's included with our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Even if you have not tackled this kind of matters in the past, you'll not have any difficulties, because our tool features a very user-friendly interface. As soon as you visit the IP blocking section of the CP, you'll find a full list of all the domains and subdomains which you have added inside the Hosted Domains section. All you need to do to block an IP address is choose the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and type the IP inside the box below. The change will take effect instantly, so you will not get any traffic from this address in the future. Removing an IP from the blocked list is just as quick.