One of the most productive methods to limit the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of the individuals that shouldn't be able to open it. There are many good reasons to do this. As an illustration, you may want a specific individual not to be able to see your Internet site, or you can restrict the access for an entire nation. You can even block IP addresses in case you discover that there are way too many browser requests from them, if a lot of spam comments are left within your websites or if a script login page has been loaded a large number of times. In each of these situations, the traffic is most probably fake and has been created by an automatic bot, so you may safely block any suspicious IP address, in order to be on the safe side. Thus, you will also prevent the chance of your web server getting overloaded by way too many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

If you buy a shared hosting from us, you will be able to see detailed traffic statistics for all of your websites and if you notice that a considerable amount of the visits to each of them are not legitimate, you could block the IP addresses that have created the most traffic through our IP Blocking tool. The interface is extremely simple - choose the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then type in the IP address that you want to block and save the change. All the addresses which you have blacklisted shall appear in the same section of the Control Panel, so you're able to always remove any of them and enable it to access your Internet site again. You could block whole IP ranges through the tool also - you just have to leave one or two 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 feature a very simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that'll allow you to prohibit individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your websites with justa few clicks and you shall not have any difficulties to do that even if that is your first hosting account. Once you go to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you'll only have to choose the domain or subdomain you want from a drop-down list, then enter the IP address in a box which you'll see there and you will be all set. To limit the access for a whole network, you need 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 server shall deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.