IP Blocking

Find out about IP blocking, just what it signifies and how and when it’s best to use it.

If you notice a large increase in the online traffic to your website and if after you examine the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from places around the world or from other web servers, your site is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Such programs go through random sites attempting to log in to their administrator area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below any article where this kind of an option is made available. The fact is that, this is something rather common nowadays, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you could block them, so the bots shall not be able to access your site in any way. Needless to say, you are able to block IPs even if you allow only people from particular countries to access your Internet site.

: IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You shall be able to block IP addresses effortlessly and stop the unwelcome traffic to any site hosted in a semi-dedicated server account with us, considering the fact that we provide a rather easy-to-use tool to do that, that is part of our Hepsia hosting CP. Even if you haven't dealt with such matters in the past, you will not have any difficulties, as our tool features a very user-friendly interface. As soon as you check out the IP blocking section of the CP, you'll find a complete list of all the domains and subdomains that you've added within the Hosted Domains section. All you need to do to block an IP address is select the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then type in the IP within the box below. The change will take effect instantly, so you'll not get any traffic from this address in the future. Taking away an IP from the blocked list is just as uncomplicated.