One of the most effective ways 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 good reasons to do that. For example, you may want a particular person not to be able to see your Internet site, or you could restrict the access for an entire state. You can even block IP addresses in case you discover that there are way too many Internet browser requests from them, if a huge number of spam comments are left within your Internet sites or if a script login page has been loaded numerous times. In any of these situations, the traffic is most likely fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you could safely block any questionable IP address, in order to be on the safe side. This way, you will also steer clear of the possibility of your hosting server getting overloaded by a lot of fake requests.
IP Blocking in Shared Hosting
If you purchase a shared hosting plan from our company, you'll be able to see in depth traffic stats for all your sites and if you notice that many of the visits to each of them aren't legitimate, you are able to block the IP addresses that have created the most traffic via our IP Blocking tool. The interface is incredibly simple - pick the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then type in the IP address you want to block and save the change. All of the addresses you have blacklisted will appear in the very same section of the CP, so you can always remove any of them and allow it to access your site again. You are able to block whole IP ranges through the tool too - you just have to leave one or two 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 Servers
Our semi-dedicated server accounts come with a quite simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that'll allow you to prohibit individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your sites with onlya couple of mouse clicks and you won't have any problems to achieve that even if this is your first website hosting account. As soon as you go to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you'll just need to choose the domain or subdomain you want from a drop-down list, then type the IP address in a box that you will see there and you will be good to go. To restrict the access for an entire network, you have to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you type in 123.123. and do not type in anything inside the third and fourth positions, our server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.