If you notice a big increase in the online traffic to your site and in case after you look into the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from locations around the world or from other servers, your Internet site is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. These programs go through random sites trying to log in to their administration area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments beneath every article where such an option is available. Regrettably, that's something quite frequent 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 won't be able to access your Internet site in any way. Obviously, you can block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your website.
IP Blocking in Website Hosting
If you have a website hosting account with us and you wish to block one or a number of IP addresses, you may use the IP Blocking tool, that's integrated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Using a very simple interface, you are able to restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it requires to complete that is to log in to your Control Panel, to navigate to the IP Blocking section, to pick a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You simply won't need to do anything challenging if you'd like to block an entire network - you will just have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot shall block the full range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed inside the very same section, so you'll be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with only a mouse click.
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Our semi-dedicated server accounts include a very simple-to-use IP blocking tool, which will permit you to restrict individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your websites with justa few clicks and you will not have any difficulties to do that even if that is your first hosting account. When you check out the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you'll only need to select the domain or subdomain in question from a drop-down list, then type the IP address inside a box that you will see there and you will be ready. To prohibit the access for a whole network, you will need to leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you type in 123.123. and do not input anything within the third and fourth positions, our hosting server shall deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.