If you notice a major increase in the online traffic to your website and in case after you look at the visitor statistics it turns out that it comes from areas across the globe or from other servers, your website is more than likely being attacked by an automatic bot. These pieces of software go through random sites seeking to log in to their administrator area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments beneath any article where this type of an option is offered. However, that is something rather popular nowadays, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you can block them, so the bots will not be able to access your website in any way. Obviously, you are able to block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your site.
IP Blocking in Hosting
Our IP Blocking tool is part of the ground breaking Hepsia hosting CP, provided with all hosting accounts. It'll permit you to block addresses with only several mouse clicks. No coding skills are needed, due to the fact that you'll use an intuitive interface - you just have to select a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type in the IP address that you want to be blocked. You'll be able to see all the IP addresses that you have added inside the exact same section and whitelisting any of them shall take simply a click. If you notice that your site is being flooded by different IPs, you will be able to block an entire IP range too. This may be completed by omitting the last number of the address. For example, if you would like to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you basically have to type in 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .