One of the most efficient ways to limit the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of those that shouldn't be able to open it. There are many good reasons to do this. As an illustration, you may want a certain person not to be able to see your Internet site, or you can restrict the access for a whole country. You can also block IP addresses in case you discover that there are too many browser requests from them, if many spam comments are left within your Internet sites or if a script login page has been loaded many times. In all of these scenarios, the traffic is almost certainly fake and has been generated by an automatic bot, so you could safely block any questionable IP address, to be on the safe side. This way, you'll also avoid the chance of your hosting server getting overloaded by a lot of fake requests.

IP Blocking in Cloud Web Hosting

If you get a Linux cloud web hosting package from our company, you'll be able to see comprehensive traffic statistics for all your sites and if you notice that many of the visits to each of them aren't real, you are able to block the IP addresses which have generated the most traffic using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is incredibly simple - pick the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then type in the IP address that you would like to block and save the change. All of the addresses which you have blacklisted shall appear in the same section of the CP, allowing you to always remove any of them and enable it to access your Internet site again. You could block entire IP ranges via 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, which comes with our Linux semi-dedicated packages, will permit you to solve the issue with unwanted traffic very quickly and easily. It comes with an IP blocking tool in which you could add IP addresses with only a few mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains that you have inside the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you just have to choose the one you need and then type in the IP address that should be blocked. If you want to block an entire range, a C-class network for example, you simply need to type the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That shall block all 254 addresses, so you'll not need to enter them manually. As all the IPs that you add in this section shall be listed, you may quickly unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button relevant to the given IP.