If you notice a major increase in the online traffic to your website and in case after you examine the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from areas all over the world or from other servers, your site is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. Those programs go through random Internet sites seeking to log in to their administration area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments underneath any sort of article where this sort of an option is offered. Regrettably, that's something rather frequent in recent times, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you may block them, so the bots won't be able 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 certain countries to access your website.

IP Blocking in Web Hosting

If you get a Linux web hosting service from our company, you'll be able to see detailed traffic stats for all your websites and if you notice that many of the visits to any of them are not legitimate, you may block the IP addresses which have created the most traffic using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is quite simple - select the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then enter the IP address that you would like to block and save the change. All the addresses that you have blacklisted will appear inside the exact same section of the CP, so you can always remove any one of them and enable it to access your website again. You can block whole IP ranges via the tool too - you just 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

If you host your Internet sites inside a semi-dedicated server account with us and you want to block one or a few IP addresses sooner or later, you can take advantage of the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we have provided with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With only several mouse clicks, you will be able to block certain IPs or entire ranges, if needed. All you shall need to do is choose any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, select if the blocking must be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that's part of the Internet site, and then input the IP address that you would like to block. For an IP range, you simply need to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address depending on the size of the network you want to block. Each of the addresses you have restricted will be listed inside the exact same section and if you want to whitelist any of them, you will be able to do it with only a click at any time.