In case you notice a large increase in the online traffic to your website and in case after you examine the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from areas all over the world or from other web servers, your website is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Such pieces of software go through random sites attempting to log in to their admin area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under any article where this kind of an option is offered. However, this is something rather frequent nowadays, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you may block them, so the bots shall not be able to access your website in any way. Naturally, you are able to block IPs even if you allow only people from particular countries to access your Internet site.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

If you have a shared hosting account with us and you would like to block one or a few IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, that is integrated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. Through a really simple interface, you are able to restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it requires to perform this is to log in to your CP, to go to the IP Blocking section, to pick a specific domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to type in the IP address. You will not have to do anything challenging if you would like to block an entire network - you will simply have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot shall block the whole range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed in the same section, so you'll be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with just a click.