One of the most efficient ways to limit the access to your Internet site is to block the IP addresses of individuals which shouldn't be able to open it. There are numerous reasons to do that. For instance, you may want a particular person not to be able to see your website, or you could limit the access for a whole country. You could also block IP addresses in case you discover that there are lots of web browser requests from them, if a lot of spam comments are left within your sites or if a script login page has been loaded a lot of times. In each of these cases, the traffic is most likely fake and has been created by an automatic bot, so you can safely block any questionable IP address, to be on the safe side. That way, you shall also stay away from the chance of your server getting overloaded by a lot of fake requests.

IP Blocking in Web Hosting

If you order a web hosting from us, you'll be able to see detailed traffic statistics for all your Internet sites and if you notice that many of the visits to any of them are not real, you may block the IP addresses that have created the most traffic by using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is extremely simple - select the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then type the IP address you want to block and save the change. All the addresses that you have blacklisted will show up inside the same exact section of the Control Panel, so you can always remove any one of them and allow it to access your Internet site again. You'll be able to block entire IP ranges via the tool too - 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 Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts feature a rather simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that'll permit you to prohibit individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your websites with justa couple of mouse clicks and you will not have any problems to accomplish that even if that's your first web hosting account. As soon as you visit the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you'll only have to pick the domain or subdomain in question from a drop-down list, then enter the IP address inside a box that you will see there and you will be all set. To prohibit the access for an entire network, you need to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you type in 123.123. and don't type in anything in 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.