One of the most efficient ways to limit the access to your site is to block the IP addresses of individuals that shouldn't be able to open it. There are various reasons to do that. For example, you may want a specific individual not to be able to see your website, or you may restrict the access for an entire nation. You can also block IP addresses if you discover that there are lots of Internet browser requests from them, if many spam comments are left within your sites or if a script login page has been loaded numerous times. In any of these situations, the traffic is almost certainly fake and has been created by an automatic bot, so you can safely block any shady IP address, so as to be on the safe side. In this way, you shall also avoid the prospect of your hosting server getting overloaded by way too many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

If you order a shared hosting service from us, you'll be able to see comprehensive traffic statistics for all of your websites and if you notice that a large amount of the visits to each of them are not legitimate, you may block the IP addresses which have created the most traffic via our IP Blocking tool. The interface is incredibly simple - choose the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then type the IP address that you'd like to block and save the change. All of the addresses that you have blacklisted shall appear in the very same section of the CP, so you're able to always remove any of them and allow it to access your website again. You are able to block whole IP ranges through the tool too - you just have to leave 1 or 2 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

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, offered with our Linux semi-dedicated hosting, will allow you to solve the problem with unwanted traffic very easily. It incorporates an IP blocking tool where you could add IP addresses with a couple of mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains which you have in the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only need to pick the one you need and then type the IP address which has to be blocked. If you want to block a whole range, a C-class network for instance, you just need to input the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. This will block all 254 addresses, so you shall not have to enter them by hand. Because all the IPs that you add in this section will be listed, you can easily unblock any of them by clicking the Delete button related to the given IP.