One of the most reliable approaches to restrict the access to your site is to block the IP addresses of those which should not be able to open it. There are various good reasons to do that. For instance, you may want a particular individual not to be able to see your Internet site, or you may restrict the access for an entire nation. You can also block IP addresses in case you discover that there are way too many Internet browser requests from them, if many spam comments are left in your sites or if a script login page has been loaded a large number of times. In all of these cases, the traffic is more than likely fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you can safely block any questionable IP address, to be on the safe side. Thus, you'll also avoid the prospect of your hosting server getting overloaded by many fake requests.
IP Blocking in Shared Website Hosting
If you order a Linux shared website hosting service from our company, you shall be able to see comprehensive traffic statistics for all of your Internet sites and if you notice that a large amount of the visits to each of them aren't legitimate, you are able to block the IP addresses which have generated the most traffic using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is extremely simple - select the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then enter the IP address that you'd like to block and save the change. All the addresses that you have blacklisted shall appear inside the exact same section of the CP, so that you can always remove any of them and permit it to access your site again. You are able to block whole IP ranges via the tool as well - you just have 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
You shall be able to block IP addresses without difficulty and stop the unwanted traffic to any website hosted in a semi-dedicated server account with our company, considering the fact that we provide a very easy-to-use tool to do that, which is included with our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Even if you have not tackled such matters in the past, you shall not have any difficulties, considering that our tool has a very user-friendly interface. When you check out the IP blocking section of the Control Panel, you'll find a comprehensive list of all the domains and subdomains which you have added in the Hosted Domains section. All you should do to block an IP address is pick the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then enter the IP in the box below. The change shall take effect straightaway, so you'll not get any traffic from this address in the future. Taking away an IP from the blocked list is equally quick.