One of the most productive methods to limit the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of the individuals which should not be able to open it. There are various reasons why you should do this. For example, you may want a particular person not to be able to see your Internet site, or you could limit the access for a whole nation. You could also block IP addresses if you notice that there are too many browser requests from them, if a huge number of spam comments are left on your sites or if a script login page has been loaded a large number of times. In each of these scenarios, the traffic is almost certainly fake and has been generated by an automatic bot, so you may safely block any shady IP address, so as to be on the safe side. This way, you will also avoid the possibility of your web server getting overloaded by too many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

If you purchase a Linux shared hosting from our company, you will be able to see in depth traffic stats for all your sites and if you notice that a large amount of the visits to each of them aren't legitimate, you may block the IP addresses that have generated the most traffic through our IP Blocking tool. The interface is extremely simple - choose 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 you have blacklisted shall appear in the same section of the CP, so you can always remove any of them and permit it to access your Internet site again. You are able to block whole IP ranges through the tool as well - you just have to leave one or two octets from the address blank. For instance, 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

If you host your sites within a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you wish to block one or numerous IP addresses at some point, you may take advantage of the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we've supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With simply a couple of clicks, you shall be able to block particular IPs or entire ranges, if necessary. All you will need to do is pick any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, choose if the blocking must be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that's part of the website, and then input the IP address that you want to block. For an IP range, you only need to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address based on the size of the network you want to block. All the addresses which you have restricted will be listed in the very same section and if you want to whitelist any one of them, you shall be able to do it with only a mouse click whenever you want.