Guys let's stop beating up on 1and1 and give him some help, huh? Telling him 1and1 sucks doesn't fix his problem or answer what he cae here to find out.
Stan, SirDude has offered the best help. You could .htaccess but that means maintaining it, and it means apache has to serve the request and take up resources. It also doesn't protect brute force attacks on your FTP server, Mail server, and a number of other services. What I see here isn't a fix-all, but it should help.
IPtables, if done right, can prevent any access at all, thus mitigating brute force attacks.
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