If you see a considerable increase in the traffic to your Internet site and if after you look at the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from countries all over the world or from other servers, your website is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Such programs go through random Internet sites attempting to log in to their administrator area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under any article where such an option is made available. Regrettably, this is something quite popular these days, 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. Obviously, you may block IPs even if you allow only people from particular countries to access your Internet site.

IP Blocking in Shared Web Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool is included with the advanced Hepsia hosting Control Panel, offered with all shared web hosting accounts. It'll allow you to block addresses with only several mouse clicks. No coding abilities are required, since you shall use an intuitive interface - you just have to select a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type the IP address that you want to be blocked. You'll be able to see all the IP addresses that you have added in the very same section and whitelisting any of them shall take only a mouse click. If you notice your site is being flooded by numerous IPs, you shall be able to block a whole IP range also. This may be done by omitting the last number of the address. For example, if you need to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you simply have to type in 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .