If you see a major increase in the traffic to your Internet site and in case after you check the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from countries across the world or from other web servers, your Internet site is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. Those pieces of software go through random Internet sites looking to log in to their administration area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under every article where this kind of an option is provided. Regrettably, this is something quite common lately, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you'll be able to block them, so the bots shall not be able to access your Internet site in any way. Needless to say, you may block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your website.
IP Blocking in Website Hosting
Our IP Blocking tool is included with the ground breaking Hepsia hosting CP, provided with all website hosting accounts. It will permit you to block addresses with only several clicks. No coding skills are necessary, as you will use an intuitive interface - you simply need to pick a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type the IP address that you would like to be blocked. You shall be able to see all the IP addresses that you have added within the same section and whitelisting each of them will take just a click. If you notice your Internet site is being flooded by different IPs, you will be able to block an entire IP range as well. This could be completed by omitting the last number of the address. For instance, if you want to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you simply need to input 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .