One of the most productive ways to restrict the access to your Internet site is to block the IP addresses of the individuals that must not be able to open it. There are numerous good reasons to do this. For instance, you may want a specific individual not to be able to see your website, or you may restrict the access for a whole country. You could also block IP addresses in case you discover that there are way too many browser requests from them, if a lot of spam comments are left on your Internet sites or if a script login page has been loaded many times. In any of these cases, the traffic is more than likely fake and has been generated by an automatic bot, so you could safely block any suspicious IP address, to be on the safe side. That way, you will also stay away from the chance of your web server getting overloaded by a lot of fake requests.

IP Blocking in Web Hosting

If you order a web hosting from our company, you shall be able to see detailed traffic stats for all of your sites and if you notice that a lot of the visits to any 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 very simple - select the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then input the IP address you want to block and save the change. All the addresses that you have blacklisted shall appear inside the exact same section of the CP, so that you can always remove any of them and permit it to access your site again. You'll be able to block entire IP ranges through the tool also - you just need to leave one or two 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

Our semi-dedicated server accounts feature a very simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will allow you to restrict individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your sites with no more thanseveral clicks and you will not have any troubles to do that even if that is your first website hosting account. As soon as you check out the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you will simply have to select the domain or subdomain you want from a drop-down list, then enter the IP address within a box that you will see there and you will be ready. To prohibit the access for an entire network, you will need to leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you input 123.123. and don't input anything within the third and fourth positions, our hosting server shall deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.