If you notice a significant increase in the traffic to your site and if after you check the visitor stats it turns out that it comes from areas across the world or from other servers, your site is probably being attacked by an automatic bot. Such programs go through random websites trying to log in to their administration area through a brute-force attack or to leave spam comments under every article where this sort of an option is made available. However, that is something relatively common nowadays, but if you know the IP addresses from which the attacks come, you'll be able to block them, so the bots will not be able to access your site in any way. Needless to say, you'll be able to block IPs even if you allow only people from particular countries to access your website.
IP Blocking in Shared Hosting
Our IP Blocking tool is part of the revolutionary Hepsia hosting Control Panel, offered with all shared hosting accounts. It shall enable you to block addresses with a couple of clicks. No coding skills are required, as you'll use an intuitive interface - you need to simply select a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type in the IP address that you'd like to be blocked. You will be able to see all the IP addresses that you've added inside the very same section and whitelisting any of them shall take just a mouse click. If you notice that your Internet site is being flooded by various IPs, you'll be able to block an entire IP range as well. This could be completed by omitting the last number of the address. For example, if you wish to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you basically need to type in 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .