If you see a considerable increase in the traffic to your site and in case after you examine the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from areas all over the world or from other web servers, your site is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Such programs go through random Internet sites attempting to log in to their admin area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments beneath every article where this kind of an option is offered. Unfortunately, that's something rather popular in recent times, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you can block them, so the bots shall not be able to access your Internet site in any way. Naturally, you can block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your Internet site.
IP Blocking in Shared Web Hosting
Our shared web hosting feature an IP blocking tool, so if you would like to restrict the access to your websites, it shall be able to do so with just several mouse clicks. The tool is included with the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all accounts and which is super easy to use. As you log in and check out the IP blocking section, you shall just have to pick a domain or a subdomain hosted in the account and type the IP address which should be blocked. Our system will allow you to block entire networks as well, so if you type in 123.123.123., for example, this shall 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 may unblock it with simply a mouse click from the same section.
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you host your websites inside a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you need to block one or a few IP addresses at some point, you may use the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we have supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With simply a couple of mouse clicks, you will be able to block certain IPs or whole ranges, if needed. All you shall need to do is select any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, select if the blocking needs to be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that's part of the website, and then enter the IP address that you would like to block. For an IP range, you just have to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address based on the size of the network you want to block. Each of the addresses which you have restricted shall be listed in the exact same section and if you would like to whitelist any of them, you'll be able to do it with a mouse click anytime.