In case you notice a significant increase in the online traffic to your Internet site and in case after you check the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from areas around the world or from other web servers, your website is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. These pieces of software go through random sites attempting to log in to their admin area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments underneath any article where this sort of an option is provided. However, this is something quite popular in recent times, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you may block them, so the bots won't be able to access your website in any way. Needless to say, you may block IPs even if you allow only people from particular countries to access your site.

IP Blocking in Shared Web Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool is included with the innovative Hepsia hosting CP, provided with all shared web hosting accounts. It'll enable you to block addresses with only several clicks. No coding abilities are required, due to the fact that you shall use an intuitive interface - you need to simply choose a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and input the IP address that you would like to be blocked. You will be able to see all the IP addresses that you have added in the exact same section and whitelisting each of them will take only a mouse click. If you notice your Internet site is being flooded by numerous IPs, you'll be able to block an entire IP range also. This could be done by omitting the last number of the address. For instance, if you need to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you only have to input 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .