One of the most reliable ways to limit the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of individuals which shouldn't be able to open it. There are numerous reasons to do this. For example, you may want a specific person not to be able to see your Internet site, or you can restrict the access for an entire country. You can even block IP addresses in case you discover that there are way too many browser requests from them, if a large number of spam comments are left on your websites or if a script login page has been loaded many times. In each of these cases, the traffic is most probably fake and has been generated by an automatic bot, so you may safely block any questionable IP address, to be on the safe side. Thus, you will also steer clear of the chance of your server getting overloaded by way too many fake requests.
IP Blocking in Website Hosting
If you get a website hosting package from our company, you will be able to see comprehensive traffic statistics for all of your sites and if you notice that a considerable amount of the visits to any of them aren't legitimate, you can block the IP addresses which have generated the most traffic using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is really simple - choose 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 of the addresses that you have blacklisted shall appear inside the exact same section of the CP, so you're able to always remove any of them and enable it to access your website again. You can block entire IP ranges using the tool also - you simply need to leave 1 or 2 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
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, offered with our Linux semi-dedicated hosting packages, will permit you to solve the matter with unwanted traffic very easily and quickly. It includes an IP blocking tool where you can add IP addresses with only several mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains which you have inside the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only need to pick the one you need and then type the IP address which should be blocked. If you want to block a whole range, a C-class network for example, you simply need to input the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. This shall block all 254 addresses, so you will not need to input them by hand. Considering that all the IPs which you include in this section will be listed, you may effortlessly unblock any of them by clicking the Delete button related to the particular IP.