One of the most productive approaches to limit the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of individuals which must not be able to open it. There are many reasons why you should do that. For example, you may want a specific person not to be able to see your site, or you may restrict the access for a whole state. You may also block IP addresses in case you discover that there are lots of Internet browser requests from them, if many spam comments are left on your sites or if a script login page has been loaded a lot of times. In any of these scenarios, the traffic is almost certainly fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you may safely block any shady IP address, in order to be on the safe side. Thus, you shall also steer clear of the prospect of your hosting server getting overloaded by a lot of fake requests.

IP Blocking in Hosting

If you get a Linux hosting service from us, you shall be able to see detailed traffic stats for all your sites and if you notice that a lot of the visits to each of them aren't legit, you can block the IP addresses that have created the most traffic by using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is extremely 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've blacklisted will appear inside the very same section of the Control Panel, allowing you to always remove any one of them and enable it to access your website again. You can block entire IP ranges through the tool too - you just have to leave 1 or 2 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 Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, offered with our Linux semi-dedicated hosting, will allow you to solve the challenge with unwanted traffic very quickly and easily. It includes an IP blocking tool where you may add IP addresses with just a couple of mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains you have within the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only need to choose the one you need and then enter the IP address that should be blocked. If you wish to block an entire range, a C-class network for instance, you just have to type the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That will block all 254 addresses, so you'll not have to input them by hand. As all the IPs that you add in this section will be listed, you can quickly unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button relevant to the given IP.