One of the most effective approaches to limit the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of the individuals that must not be able to open it. There are various reasons why you should do that. For instance, you may want a certain person not to be able to see your Internet site, or you can limit the access for a whole country. You can even block IP addresses if you detect that there are way too many Internet browser requests from them, if many spam comments are left in your Internet sites or if a script login page has been loaded a large number of times. In each of these scenarios, the traffic is almost certainly fake and has been generated by an automatic bot, so you could safely block any shady IP address, in order to be on the safe side. This way, you shall also steer clear of the prospect of your web server getting overloaded by a lot of fake requests.

IP Blocking in Shared Website Hosting

If you order a shared website hosting service from us, you'll be able to see comprehensive traffic stats for all your websites and if you notice that a large amount of the visits to any of them are not real, you'll be able to block the IP addresses that have created the most traffic by using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is extremely simple - pick 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 of the addresses that you have blacklisted will show up in the same exact section of the Control Panel, so you're able to always remove any one of them and allow it to access your website again. You are able to block entire IP ranges via the tool as well - you simply need 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

If you host your sites in a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you need to block one or several IP addresses eventually, you may benefit from the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we've supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With several clicks, you will be able to block certain IPs or whole ranges, if necessary. All you shall have to do is select any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, select if the blocking should be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder which is part of the site, and then input the IP address that you want to block. For an IP range, you simply need to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address with regards to the size of the network that you want to block. All the addresses which you have restricted will be listed within the exact same section and if you want to whitelist any of them, you will be able to do it with a mouse click whenever you want.