If you see a large increase in the online traffic to your website and if after you check the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from countries around the world or from other web servers, your site is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Such pieces of software go through random Internet sites aiming to log in to their administrator area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments underneath every article where such an option is provided. Unfortunately, that's something relatively popular these days, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you could block them, so the bots will be unable to access your website in any way. Needless to say, you may block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your Internet site.

IP Blocking in Shared Web Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool is included with the revolutionary Hepsia hosting CP, provided with all shared web hosting accounts. It shall allow 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 just have to choose a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type the IP address you want to be blocked. You'll be able to see all the IP addresses you have added inside the very same section and whitelisting any of them will take only a click. If you notice that your website is being flooded by various IPs, you shall be able to block a whole IP range also. This can be completed by omitting the last number of the address. For example, if you wish to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you just need to input 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .