If you see a big increase in the traffic to your site and in case after you look at the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from countries around the world or from other servers, your site is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Such pieces of software go through random websites attempting to log in to their administration area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below every article where such an option is provided. The fact is that, that's something relatively common nowadays, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you could block them, so the bots will not be able to access your site in any way. Naturally, you may block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your site.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

If you have a shared hosting account with us and you would like to block one or several IP addresses, you may use the IP Blocking tool, that's included in our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Using a really simple interface, you can restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it requires to complete this is to log in to your CP, to navigate to the IP Blocking section, to choose a specific domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to type in the IP address. You'll not need to do anything complicated if you would like to block an entire network - you'll just need to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot shall block the entire range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed within the same section, so you will be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with simply a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our semi-dedicated server accounts include a rather simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will enable you to restrict individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your websites with onlya couple of mouse clicks and you shall not have any problems to do that even if this is your first hosting account. As soon as you go to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you'll simply have to choose the domain or subdomain you want from a drop-down list, then type in the IP address within a box which you'll see there and you will be good to go. To limit the access for a whole network, you'll have to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you input 123.123. and don't enter anything within the third and fourth positions, our hosting server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.