One of the most efficient ways to restrict the access to your site is to block the IP addresses of individuals that shouldn't be able to open it. There are several reasons to do that. As an illustration, you may want a specific individual not to be able to see your site, or you could restrict the access for a whole nation. You could also block IP addresses if you detect that there are way too many browser requests from them, if a large number of spam comments are left in your sites or if a script login page has been loaded a lot of times. In each of these cases, the traffic is more than likely fake and has been generated by an automatic bot, so you may safely block any questionable IP address, so as to be on the safe side. This way, you will also avoid the chance of your hosting server getting overloaded by way too many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Shared Web Hosting

If you order a Linux shared web hosting from our company, you shall be able to see in depth traffic statistics for all of your websites and if you notice that a considerable amount of the visits to any of them are not legitimate, you can block the IP addresses which have produced the most traffic via our IP Blocking tool. The interface is extremely simple - select the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then type in the IP address that you'd like to block and save the change. All the addresses you have blacklisted will appear inside the exact same section of the CP, allowing you to always remove any one of them and permit it to access your Internet site again. You can block entire IP ranges through 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 Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, offered with our Linux semi-dedicated hosting, will allow you to solve the issue with unwanted traffic very efficiently. It incorporates an IP blocking tool in which you may add IP addresses with a few mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains that you have within the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you simply have to pick the one you need and then type the IP address that needs to be blocked. If you wish to block an entire range, a C-class network for example, you just have to input the first 3 octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That shall block all 254 addresses, so you shall not have to input them by hand. Because all the IPs you add in this section will be listed, you can easily unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button associated with the given IP.