One of the most reliable ways to limit the access to your Internet site is to block the IP addresses of the people that mustn't be able to open it. There are several reasons to do that. As an example, you may want a particular person not to be able to see your website, or you could restrict the access for an entire nation. You can even block IP addresses in case you discover that there are too many Internet browser requests from them, if a huge number of spam comments are left on your websites or if a script login page has been loaded numerous times. In any of these cases, the traffic is most likely fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you may safely block any questionable IP address, to be on the safe side. This way, you'll also stay away from the prospect of your web server getting overloaded by way too many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting

If you get a cloud package from us, you will be able to see in depth traffic stats for all of your websites and if you notice that a considerable amount of the visits to each of them aren't legit, you may block the IP addresses which have created the most traffic through our IP Blocking tool. The interface is really simple - pick the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then type in the IP address you want to block and save the change. All of the addresses that you have blacklisted shall appear in the same exact section of the CP, so you're able to always remove any of them and permit it to access your site again. You'll be able to block whole IP ranges through the tool also - you just need 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 websites within a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you wish to block one or several IP addresses eventually, you'll be able to benefit from the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we have included in our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With only a couple of clicks, you shall be able to block specific IPs or entire ranges, if required. All you'll have to do is select any 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 is 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 depending on the size of the network that you want to block. Each of the addresses that you've restricted will be listed inside the same exact section and if you wish to whitelist any one of them, you will be able to do it with a mouse click whenever you want.