In case you notice a big increase in the traffic to your site and if after you look into the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from places across the world or from other servers, your Internet site is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Such pieces of software go through random Internet sites seeking to log in to their administrator area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below any sort of article where this kind of an option is available. Regrettably, that's something quite popular lately, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you can block them, so the bots will not be able to access your website in any way. Naturally, you may block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your site.
IP Blocking in Shared Web Hosting
Our Linux shared web hosting packages include an IP blocking tool, so in case you would like to limit the access to your Internet sites, it shall be able to do this with just a few mouse clicks. The tool is part of the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all accounts and that's quite simple to use. When you log in and navigate to the IP blocking section, you'll just have to pick a domain or a subdomain hosted in the account and type in the IP address that needs to be blocked. Our system allows you to block whole networks as well, so if you type in 123.123.123., for instance, this shall block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your sites. If you would like to whitelist an IP at some point, you could unblock it with a click from the same section.