One of the most productive methods to limit the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of individuals that shouldn't be able to open it. There are various good reasons to do this. For instance, you may want a certain individual not to be able to see your website, or you may limit the access for a whole nation. You may also block IP addresses if you notice that there are way too many browser requests from them, if a huge number of spam comments are left on your Internet sites or if a script login page has been loaded a lot of times. In any of these situations, the traffic is most probably fake and has been generated by an automatic bot, so you can safely block any suspicious IP address, in order to be on the safe side. That way, you'll also avoid the chance of your hosting server getting overloaded by way too many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Website Hosting

If you get a Linux website hosting from us, you will be able to see detailed traffic statistics for all of your Internet sites and if you notice that a large amount of the visits to each of them are not real, you may block the IP addresses which have generated the most traffic via our IP Blocking tool. The interface is quite simple - select the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then input the IP address you want to block and save the change. All of the addresses which you have blacklisted will show up inside the same exact section of the CP, so you're able to always remove any one of them and allow it to access your site again. You'll be able to block whole IP ranges via the tool too - you simply need to leave one or two 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 Hosting

If you host your websites in a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you would like to block one or a number of IP addresses sooner or later, you are able to leverage the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we have provided with our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With simply several clicks, you shall be able to block individual IPs or whole ranges, if required. All you'll have to do is pick out any one 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 Internet site, and then enter the IP address that you'd like to block. For an IP range, you just have to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address based on the size of the network you want to block. Each of the addresses you have restricted will be listed in the same section and if you want to whitelist any one of them, you will be able to do it with a mouse click whenever you want.