One of the most reliable ways to restrict the access to your site is to block the IP addresses of the individuals that shouldn't be able to open it. There are numerous good reasons to do this. For example, you may want a particular individual not to be able to see your site, or you may limit the access for an entire country. You can even block IP addresses if you notice that there are lots of Internet 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 numerous times. In any of these scenarios, the traffic is more than likely fake and has been created by an automatic bot, so you could safely block any shady IP address, in order to be on the safe side. Thus, you shall also stay away from the possibility of your server getting overloaded by a lot of fake requests.

IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting

If you get a cloud service from our company, you shall be able to see comprehensive traffic stats for all your sites and if you notice that a lot of the visits to any of them aren't authentic, you can block the IP addresses which have produced the most traffic by using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is very simple - choose the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then type in the IP address you want to block and save the change. All the addresses that you've blacklisted will appear inside the exact same section of the Control Panel, so you're able to always remove any one of them and permit it to access your site again. You can block whole IP ranges through the tool as well - you just have to leave 1 or 2 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 Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts come with a really simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will enable you to restrict individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your Internet sites with no more thana couple of clicks and you won't have any issues to do that even if that is your first web hosting account. When you go to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia CP, you'll just need to select the domain or subdomain you need from a drop-down list, then enter the IP address inside a box that you'll see there and you will be good to go. To prohibit the access for a whole network, you will need to leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you enter 123.123. and do not type anything within the third and fourth positions, our hosting server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.