One of the most reliable methods to restrict 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 to do this. For example, you may want a specific person not to be able to see your site, or you may restrict the access for a whole nation. You may also block IP addresses in case you detect that there are way too many browser requests from them, if a large number of spam comments are left on your sites or if a script login page has been loaded numerous times. In each of these scenarios, the traffic is almost certainly fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you may safely block any questionable IP address, to be on the safe side. This way, you'll also avoid the prospect of your hosting server getting overloaded by many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Website Hosting

If you order a website hosting plan from our company, you'll be able to see comprehensive traffic stats for all of your sites and if you notice that a large amount of the visits to each of them are not legitimate, you could block the IP addresses that have created the most traffic using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is incredibly simple - pick the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then enter the IP address that you want to block and save the change. All of the addresses which you have blacklisted will show up inside the very same section of the CP, so you're able to always remove any one of them and enable it to access your site 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 Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts come with a quite simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will permit you to restrict individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your Internet sites with no more thana couple of clicks and you shall not have any troubles to do that even if that is your first web hosting account. Once you go to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you'll just have to pick the domain or subdomain in question from a drop-down list, then enter the IP address in a box that you will see there and you will be ready. To prohibit the access for an entire network, you have to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you enter 123.123. and do not input anything inside the third and fourth positions, our web server shall deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.