One of the most productive methods to restrict the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of the individuals that must not be able to open it. There are several good reasons to do this. For example, you may want a particular individual not to be able to see your site, or you could limit the access for an entire state. You may also block IP addresses if you notice that there are too many browser requests from them, if a large number of spam comments are left on your Internet sites or if a script login page has been loaded many times. In any of these scenarios, the traffic is most likely fake and has been created by an automatic bot, so you can safely block any suspicious IP address, so as to be on the safe side. This way, you shall also avoid the prospect of your server getting overloaded by many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Shared Website Hosting

If you buy a Linux shared website hosting from our company, you shall be able to see in depth traffic statistics for all your Internet sites and if you notice that many of the visits to any of them are not authentic, you are able to block the IP addresses which have produced the most traffic through our IP Blocking tool. The interface is very simple - choose the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then enter the IP address that you want to block and save the change. All the addresses which you have blacklisted will show up inside the very same section of the CP, so that you can always remove any one of them and enable it to access your Internet site again. You can block entire IP ranges using the tool also - you just 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 Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts feature a quite simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will enable you to prohibit individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your Internet sites with onlya couple of mouse clicks and you will not have any problems to accomplish that even if this is your first hosting account. Once you check out the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you'll simply have to select the domain or subdomain in question from a drop-down list, then input the IP address in a box that you'll see there and you will be ready. To prohibit the access for a whole network, you need to leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you type 123.123. and do not input anything inside the third and fourth positions, our server shall deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.