If you see a considerable increase in the online traffic to your website and in case after you check the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from locations across the globe or from other servers, your website is most likely being attacked by an automatic bot. Those pieces of software go through random sites trying to log in to their administration area using a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under any sort of article where this sort of an option is provided. However, this is something quite frequent in recent times, but if you know the IP addresses through which the attacks come, you can block them, so the bots won't be able to access your Internet site in any way. Of course, you are able to block IPs even if you allow only people from specific countries to access your website.
IP Blocking in Shared Hosting
If you get a shared hosting from us, you shall be able to see detailed traffic statistics for all your Internet sites and if you notice that a large amount of the visits to each of them are not legit, you can block the IP addresses which have produced the most traffic via our IP Blocking tool. The interface is extremely simple - select the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then type in the IP address you want to block and save the change. All the addresses which you have blacklisted shall appear inside the same exact section of the CP, so you can always remove any one of them and allow it to access your website again. You can block whole IP ranges through the tool too - you just have to leave 1 or 2 octets from the address blank. For example, entering 1.2.3. will block all 254 IPs from 1.2.3.1 to 1.2.3.255.
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, included with our Linux semi-dedicated hosting plans, will permit you to solve the matter with unwanted traffic very efficiently. It features an IP blocking tool where you could add IP addresses with only a few clicks. All domains and subdomains you have inside the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only have to choose the one you need and then input the IP address that needs to be blocked. If you would like to block an entire range, a C-class network for instance, you just have to enter the first 3 octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. This will block all 254 addresses, so you will not need to enter them by hand. Since all the IPs that you include in this section will be listed, you can quickly unblock any of them by clicking the Delete button related to the particular IP.