In case you notice a considerable increase in the traffic to your website and if after you examine the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from areas across the globe or from other web servers, your website is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Those programs go through random websites looking to log in to their administrator area by using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments below any article where this type of an option is available. The fact is that, that's something quite common these days, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you could block them, so the bots will not be able to access your site in any way. Obviously, you'll be able to block IPs even if you allow only people from certain countries to access your Internet site.

IP Blocking in Web Hosting

If you have a web hosting account with our company and you want to block one or a number of IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, which is incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. Using a really simple interface, you can prevent 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 within to your Control Panel, to check out the IP Blocking section, to select a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You simply won't need to do anything challenging if you'd like to block a whole network - you'll just need to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot shall block the entire range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed inside the exact same section, so you'll be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with just a mouse click.