One of the most efficient approaches to limit the access to your Internet site is to block the IP addresses of individuals which should not be able to open it. There are several reasons to do that. As an illustration, you may want a particular person not to be able to see your website, or you could restrict the access for an entire country. You could also block IP addresses in case you notice that there are lots of web browser requests from them, if a huge number of spam comments are left on your sites or if a script login page has been loaded numerous times. In each of these cases, the traffic is most likely fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you could safely block any shady IP address, so as to be on the safe side. This way, you'll also steer clear of the prospect of your hosting server getting overloaded by way too many fake requests.
IP Blocking in Hosting
If you purchase a Linux hosting from our company, you shall be able to see comprehensive traffic statistics for all of your sites and if you notice that a large amount of the visits to each of them aren't authentic, you can block the IP addresses that have produced the most traffic by using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is quite simple - select the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then type in the IP address that you'd like to block and save the change. All the addresses which you have blacklisted shall appear in the exact same section of the Control Panel, so that you can always remove any of them and enable it to access your site again. You are able to block whole IP ranges via the tool also - 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 Hosting
Our semi-dedicated server accounts include a very simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will allow you to prohibit individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your websites with justa couple of mouse clicks and you won't have any troubles to achieve that even if this is your first website hosting account. As soon as you visit the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia CP, you'll just have to pick the domain or subdomain you want from a drop-down list, then type the IP address within a box that you'll see there and you will be all set. To restrict the access for a whole network, you need to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you input 123.123. and do not type in anything in the third and fourth positions, our web server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.