One of the most efficient methods to restrict the access to your site is to block the IP addresses of the people which shouldn't be able to open it. There are various good reasons to do that. For example, you may want a specific person not to be able to see your site, or you may restrict the access for an entire state. You can also block IP addresses if you notice that there are lots of browser requests from them, if a large number of spam comments are left in your websites or if a script login page has been loaded a lot of times. In all of these scenarios, the traffic is most probably fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you could safely block any shady IP address, to be on the safe side. That way, you will also stay away from the possibility of your hosting server getting overloaded by too many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Shared Website Hosting

If you order a shared website hosting from our company, you'll be able to see in depth traffic stats for all your websites and if you notice that a considerable amount of the visits to any of them aren't real, you are able to block the IP addresses that have generated the most traffic through our IP Blocking tool. The interface is incredibly simple - pick 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 the addresses that you have blacklisted will appear in the very same section of the Control Panel, so you're able to always remove any one of them and permit it to access your Internet site again. You are able to block entire IP ranges through the tool too - you simply need 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 Servers

You will be able to block IP addresses without difficulty and stop the unwanted traffic to any site hosted inside a semi-dedicated server account with us, because we offer a rather easy-to-use tool to do that, that's offered with our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Even if you haven't addressed such problems in the past, you won't have any difficulties, because our tool has a very user-friendly interface. Once you check out the IP blocking section of the Control Panel, you will find a full list of all the domains and subdomains you have added within the Hosted Domains section. All you need to do to block an IP address is pick the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and enter the IP in the box below. The change will take effect immediately, so you will not get any traffic from this address in the future. Removing an IP from the blocked list is just as simple.