If you see a big increase in the traffic to your site and in case after you examine the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from places across the globe or from other servers, your Internet site is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. These pieces of software go through random sites looking to log in to their admin area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below every article where such an option is offered. However, that's something relatively common nowadays, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you may block them, so the bots won't be able to access your website in any way. Certainly, you can block IPs even if you allow only people from particular countries to access your website.

IP Blocking in Shared Website Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool is included with the revolutionary Hepsia hosting Control Panel, provided with all shared website hosting accounts. It'll permit you to block addresses with just a few clicks. No coding abilities are needed, as you will use an intuitive interface - you just need to pick a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and input the IP address that you'd like to be blocked. You shall be able to see all the IP addresses which you have added in the exact same section and whitelisting any of them will take only a click. If you notice your website is being flooded by various IPs, you shall be able to block an entire IP range also. This can be performed by omitting the last number of the address. For instance, if you want to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you simply need to enter 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .