In case you notice a large increase in the online traffic to your site and in case after you look at the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from places across the world or from other web servers, your Internet site is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Those programs go through random sites attempting to log in to their admin area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments underneath any article where this type of an option is provided. Regrettably, that's something relatively popular in recent times, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you can block them, so the bots will be unable to access your Internet site in any way. Of course, you'll be able to block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your website.

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, which is included in our in-house built Hepsia CP. Through a pretty simple interface, you'll be able to stop any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it takes to perform this is to log in to your Control Panel, to go to the IP Blocking section, to pick a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You will not have to do anything challenging if you want 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 shall be listed in the exact same section, so you shall be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with simply a click.