In case you notice a significant increase in the online traffic to your website and in case after you examine the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from locations around the world or from other web servers, your Internet site is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. These pieces of software go through random sites aiming to log in to their admin area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments beneath any article where this sort of an option is provided. The fact is that, that is something quite frequent nowadays, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you could block them, so the bots shall not be able to access your site in any way. Of course, you may block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your site.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your websites inside a semi-dedicated server account with us and you need to block one or a number of IP addresses eventually, you could use the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we have supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With several mouse clicks, you'll be able to block certain IPs or entire ranges, if required. All you'll need to do is choose any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, decide if the blocking must be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that's part of the Internet site, and then type in the IP address you want to block. For an IP range, you just have to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address depending on the size of the network that you want to block. All of the addresses that you've restricted will be listed in the same section and if you would like to whitelist any one of them, you'll be able to do it with just a click at any time.