In case you notice a big increase in the traffic to your Internet site and in case after you check the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from places across the world or from other web servers, your site is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Those pieces of software go through random Internet sites seeking to log in to their admin area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below any article where such an option is provided. Regrettably, that is something relatively common nowadays, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you could block them, so the bots won't be able to access your Internet site in any way. Obviously, you'll be able to block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your site.

IP Blocking in Shared Web Hosting

If you purchase a shared web hosting from our company, you'll be able to see in depth traffic stats for all your Internet sites and if you notice that a considerable amount of the visits to each of them aren't real, you'll be able to block the IP addresses which have created the most traffic using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is quite simple - pick the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then input the IP address that you want to block and save the change. All the addresses that you have blacklisted will show up in the very same section of the CP, so that you can always remove any one of them and enable it to access your site again. You are able to block entire IP ranges through the tool also - you just have to leave 1 or 2 octets from the address blank. For instance, entering 1.2.3. will block all 254 IPs from 1.2.3.1 to 1.2.3.255.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

You'll be able to block IP addresses with ease and stop the unwelcome traffic to any site hosted inside a semi-dedicated server account with us, since we offer a very easy-to-use tool to do that, that is offered with our Hepsia hosting CP. Even if you haven't addressed such problems in the past, you will not have any difficulties, since our tool includes a very user-friendly interface. Once you go to the IP blocking section of the Control Panel, you shall find a comprehensive list of all the domains and subdomains which you have added within the Hosted Domains section. All you need to do to block an IP address is choose the desired domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and input the IP inside the box below. The change will take effect immediately, so you will not get any traffic from this address in the future. Taking away an IP from the blocked list is equally quick.