In case you notice a significant increase in the traffic to your site and if after you look at the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from locations across the world or from other web servers, your website is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Those programs go through random sites looking to log in to their admin area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under every article where such an option is provided. Regrettably, this is something rather common lately, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you can block them, so the bots will be unable to access your site in any way. Obviously, you'll be able to block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your Internet site.

IP Blocking in Hosting

If you buy a hosting plan from us, you'll be able to see in depth traffic stats for all of your websites and if you notice that many of the visits to any of them aren't legit, you could block the IP addresses that have created the most traffic using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is very simple - select 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 the addresses that you have blacklisted will show up inside the very same section of the Control Panel, so that you can always remove any one of them and allow it to access your site again. You are able to block entire IP ranges using the tool as well - you just have to leave one or two 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

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, offered with our Linux semi-dedicated plans, will enable you to solve the challenge with unwanted traffic very easily. It incorporates an IP blocking tool in which you can add IP addresses with just a few mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains that you have in the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only have to select the one you need and then input the IP address which has to be blocked. If you want to block a whole range, a C-class network for instance, you just need to type in the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. This will block all 254 addresses, so you'll not have to enter them manually. Because all the IPs which you include in this section will be listed, you could effortlessly unblock any of them by clicking the Delete button related to the given IP.