If you notice a major increase in the traffic to your site and in case after you look into the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from locations all over the world or from other web servers, your website is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. Such programs go through random websites trying to log in to their administrator area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under any sort of article where this kind of an option is available. Regrettably, that's something quite frequent these days, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you could block them, so the bots shall not be able to access your site in any way. Naturally, you are able to block IPs even if you allow only people from particular countries to access your website.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

Our Linux shared hosting packages feature an IP blocking tool, so if you want to restrict the access to your sites, it shall be able to do this with simply a few clicks. The tool is included with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all accounts and which is a breeze to use. As you log in and navigate to the IP blocking section, you shall just need to choose a domain or a subdomain hosted in the account and type the IP address that needs to be blocked. Our system enables you to block entire networks as well, so if you type in 123.123.123., for example, this'll block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your websites. If you want to whitelist an IP at some point, you can unblock it with just a click from the same section.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our semi-dedicated server accounts feature a very simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that'll allow you to prohibit individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your websites with justa couple of clicks and you shall not have any difficulties to achieve that even if this is your first hosting account. As soon as you navigate to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia CP, you will only have to pick the domain or subdomain in question from a drop-down list, then type the IP address in a box which you'll see there and you will be ready. To restrict the access for a whole network, you will need to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you enter 123.123. and do not type in 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.