One of the most reliable methods to limit the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of individuals that must not be able to open it. There are several reasons to do that. For instance, you may want a particular individual not to be able to see your Internet site, or you could restrict the access for an entire state. You can also block IP addresses in case you detect that there are too many browser requests from them, if many spam comments are left within your sites or if a script login page has been loaded many times. In each of these cases, the traffic is most likely fake and has been created by an automatic bot, so you may safely block any suspicious IP address, so as to be on the safe side. This way, you'll also stay away from the chance of your web server getting overloaded by a lot of fake requests.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

If you order a shared service from our company, you shall be able to see detailed traffic statistics for all of your sites and if you notice that a considerable amount of the visits to any of them are not real, you could block the IP addresses that have generated the most traffic through 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 that you'd like to block and save the change. All the addresses you have blacklisted shall appear in the very same section of the Control Panel, so you're able to always remove any of them and enable it to access your site again. You can block whole IP ranges using the tool too - 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 CP, offered with our Linux semi-dedicated services, will allow you to solve the issue with unwanted traffic very easily and quickly. It features an IP blocking tool in which you can add IP addresses with just a few mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains you have within the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only have to select the one you need and then type the IP address that should be blocked. If you wish to block an entire range, a C-class network for example, you just have to input the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That shall block all 254 addresses, so you will not need to input them by hand. Because all the IPs which you include in this section shall be listed, you may quickly unblock any of them by clicking the Delete button related to the particular IP.