In case you notice a significant increase in the online traffic to your Internet site and if after you look into the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from areas around the world or from other servers, your site is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. These pieces of software go through random sites looking to log in to their admin area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments underneath any article where such an option is provided. Unfortunately, that is something quite popular nowadays, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you may block them, so the bots shall not be able to access your Internet site in any way. Obviously, you'll be able to block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your Internet site.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

If you have a shared hosting account with our company and you would like to block one or a few IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, that is included in our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Using a rather simple interface, you are able to prevent any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it takes to complete this is to log in to your Control Panel, to visit the IP Blocking section, to pick a specific domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You simply won't have to do anything difficult if you'd like to block a whole network - you'll just have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot will block the full range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed in the very same section, so you'll be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with a mouse click.