If you notice a significant increase in the online traffic to your Internet site and in case after you look at the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from places around the world or from other web servers, your website is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. Such programs go through random sites aiming to log in to their administration area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below any sort of article where this type of an option is available. Regrettably, that's something quite common nowadays, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you may block them, so the bots will be unable to access your Internet site in any way. Needless to say, you'll be able to block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your website.

IP Blocking in Website Hosting

Our Linux website hosting packages include an IP blocking tool, so in case you want to restrict the access to your sites, it shall be able to do this with just a couple of clicks. The tool is included with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all accounts and which is very simple to use. As soon as you log in and navigate to the IP blocking section, you shall just have to pick a domain or a subdomain hosted in the account and type the IP address that should be blocked. Our system will allow you to block whole networks too, so if you type in 123.123.123., for example, this will block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your websites. If you would like to whitelist an IP at some point, you'll be able to unblock it with simply a click from the same section.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our semi-dedicated server accounts come with a quite simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will enable you to restrict individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your sites with justseveral mouse clicks and you will not have any difficulties to accomplish that even if that is your first web hosting account. Once you go to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you will simply have to pick the domain or subdomain you want from a drop-down list, then input the IP address in a box that you'll see there and you will be all set. To restrict the access for a whole network, you need to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you type 123.123. and do not type anything inside the third and fourth positions, our server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.