One of the most efficient approaches to restrict the access to your Internet site is to block the IP addresses of those that mustn't be able to open it. There are various reasons to do this. For instance, you may want a particular person not to be able to see your site, or you may limit the access for an entire nation. You may also block IP addresses in case you detect that there are lots of web browser requests from them, if a huge 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 situations, the traffic is almost certainly fake and has been created by an automatic bot, so you could safely block any suspicious IP address, in order to be on the safe side. In this way, you will also prevent the chance of your server getting overloaded by way too many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Cloud Web Hosting

If you buy a Linux cloud web hosting package from us, you'll be able to see in depth traffic statistics for all of your Internet sites and if you notice that a lot of the visits to each of them are not legit, you'll be able to block the IP addresses which have generated the most traffic by using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is really simple - pick the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then type in the IP address that you would like to block and save the change. All of the addresses that you have blacklisted will show up in the same section of the Control Panel, allowing you to always remove any one of them and enable it to access your Internet site again. You are able to block whole IP ranges through the tool as well - you just need to leave one or two octets from the address blank. As an 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 Hosting

If you host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you wish to block one or a number of IP addresses at some point, you may take advantage of the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we've provided with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With several clicks, you will be able to block specific IPs or entire ranges, if required. All you will have to do is select any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, choose if the blocking must be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder which is part of the site, and then type the IP address you want to block. For an IP range, you just need to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address based on the size of the network you want to block. All of the addresses you have restricted shall be listed inside the same section and if you want to whitelist any of them, you shall be able to do it with a click anytime.