One of the most reliable ways to restrict the access to your site is to block the IP addresses of individuals which should not be able to open it. There are various reasons why you should do this. As an illustration, you may want a particular person not to be able to see your site, or you could limit the access for an entire nation. You may also block IP addresses if you notice that there are lots of Internet browser requests from them, if a huge number of spam comments are left in your Internet sites or if a script login page has been loaded many times. In all of these situations, the traffic is almost certainly fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you could safely block any questionable IP address, so as to be on the safe side. In this way, you'll also prevent the prospect of your server getting overloaded by too many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

If you buy a shared hosting from our company, you'll be able to see comprehensive traffic stats for all your websites and if you notice that many of the visits to each of them aren't legitimate, you are able to block the IP addresses which have created the most traffic via our IP Blocking tool. The interface is really simple - choose the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then enter the IP address you want to block and save the change. All the addresses that you have blacklisted shall appear in the exact same section of the CP, so you're able to always remove any of them and enable it to access your Internet site again. You could block whole IP ranges using the tool also - you just have to leave 1 or 2 octets from the address blank. As an 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 sites inside a semi-dedicated server account with us and you want to block one or numerous IP addresses sooner or later, you could take advantage of the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we have supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With several mouse clicks, you will be able to block particular IPs or whole ranges, if required. All you'll have to do is pick out any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, select if the blocking should be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that's part of the site, and then type the IP address that you would like to block. For an IP range, you simply need to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address based on the size of the network which you want to block. Each of the addresses you have restricted shall be listed in the same exact section and if you want to whitelist any of them, you'll be able to do it with simply a mouse click at any time.