If you notice a significant increase in the traffic to your website and if after you examine the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from countries around the world or from other servers, your Internet site is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Those programs go through random websites aiming to log in to their administration area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments underneath every article where such an option is offered. Unfortunately, this is something quite frequent nowadays, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you'll be able to block them, so the bots will be unable to access your Internet site in any way. Of course, you'll be able to block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your site.
IP Blocking in Shared Web Hosting
Our IP Blocking tool is part of the revolutionary Hepsia hosting CP, provided with all shared web hosting accounts. It shall enable you to block addresses with only a few mouse clicks. No coding abilities are necessary, due to the fact that you'll use an intuitive interface - you just need to pick a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type in the IP address that you would like to be blocked. You shall be able to see all the IP addresses that you've added inside the very same section and whitelisting any of them shall take just a mouse click. If you notice that your Internet site is being flooded by numerous IPs, you will be able to block a whole IP range too. This could 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 enter 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .