One of the most effective approaches to limit the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of the individuals that shouldn't be able to open it. There are numerous reasons to do this. As an illustration, you may want a particular individual not to be able to see your site, or you can limit the access for an entire country. You can also block IP addresses if you discover that there are lots of web browser requests from them, if many spam comments are left in your sites or if a script login page has been loaded numerous 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 questionable IP address, so as to be on the safe side. That way, you will also steer clear of the prospect of your hosting server getting overloaded by many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting

If you purchase a Linux cloud hosting from our company, you will be able to see detailed traffic statistics for all your sites and if you notice that many of the visits to each of them are not legit, you may block the IP addresses that have produced the most traffic by using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is incredibly simple - pick the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then input the IP address that you want to block and save the change. All the addresses that you have blacklisted shall appear in the exact same section of the CP, so you're able to always remove any one of them and allow it to access your Internet site again. You'll be able to block entire IP ranges through the tool too - 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

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, included with our Linux semi-dedicated hosting, will permit you to solve the matter with unwanted traffic very quickly and easily. It features an IP blocking tool in which you could add IP addresses with only a few clicks. All domains and subdomains which you have within the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only need to pick the one you need and then input the IP address which has to be blocked. If you would like to block an entire range, a C-class network for example, you just have to type in 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 input them by hand. Since all the IPs you add in this section shall be listed, you can very easily unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button relevant to the particular IP.