If you see a significant increase in the traffic to your site and in case after you check the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from areas around the world or from other servers, your Internet site is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. Those pieces of software go through random websites trying to log in to their admin area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under any sort of article where this type of an option is available. Regrettably, that is something relatively popular in recent times, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you'll be able to block them, so the bots will be unable to access your site in any way. Obviously, you can block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your site.

IP Blocking in Hosting

If you get a Linux hosting service from us, you shall be able to see comprehensive traffic stats for all your Internet sites and if you notice that a lot of the visits to any of them aren't legitimate, you'll be able to block the IP addresses which have produced the most traffic using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is extremely simple - pick the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then type in the IP address that you'd like to block and save the change. All of the addresses which you have blacklisted will show up in the same section of the CP, so you can always remove any one of them and allow it to access your Internet site again. You can block whole IP ranges using the tool also - you simply need to leave 1 or 2 octets from the address blank. As an example, 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

Our semi-dedicated server accounts feature a rather simple-to-use IP blocking tool, which will allow you to prohibit individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your websites with justseveral clicks and you shall not have any issues to do that even if that is your first web hosting account. When you visit the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you will simply have to choose 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 good to go. To restrict the access for a whole network, you need to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you type in 123.123. and do not input anything within the third and fourth positions, our server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.