One of the most reliable approaches to restrict the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of the people which mustn't be able to open it. There are many good reasons to do that. For example, you may want a particular individual not to be able to see your Internet site, or you may limit the access for an entire country. You can also block IP addresses in case you notice that there are lots of browser requests from them, if many spam comments are left within your websites or if a script login page has been loaded a large number of times. In any of these situations, the traffic is almost certainly fake and has been generated by an automatic bot, so you could safely block any suspicious IP address, so as to be on the safe side. In this way, you shall also prevent the possibility of your hosting server getting overloaded by many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Hosting

If you get a Linux hosting from us, you will be able to see in depth traffic stats for all your sites and if you notice that a considerable amount of the visits to each of them are not legitimate, you can block the IP addresses which have created the most traffic via our IP Blocking tool. The interface is very simple - pick the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then type the IP address you want to block and save the change. All the addresses that you've blacklisted shall appear in the same section of the CP, so you're able to always remove any of them and enable it to access your website again. You are able to block whole IP ranges through the tool also - you just have 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, provided with our semi-dedicated hosting, will allow you to solve the matter with unwanted traffic very easily and quickly. It incorporates an IP blocking tool where you can add IP addresses with just a few clicks. All domains and subdomains you have within the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you simply have to select the one you need and then type in the IP address that needs to be blocked. If you want to block an entire range, a C-class network for example, you simply need to enter the first 3 octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. This will block all 254 addresses, so you'll not have to type in them manually. As all the IPs that you add in this section shall be listed, you could very easily unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button related to the particular IP.