One of the most efficient ways to limit the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of the individuals that shouldn't be able to open it. There are various reasons why you should do this. For instance, you may want a particular individual not to be able to see your website, or you can restrict the access for a whole country. You can even block IP addresses in case you detect that there are way too many web browser requests from them, if a lot of spam comments are left on your Internet sites or if a script login page has been loaded numerous times. In each of these situations, the traffic is more than likely fake and has been created by an automatic bot, so you can safely block any shady IP address, to be on the safe side. In this way, you will also prevent the possibility of your hosting server getting overloaded by way too many fake requests.
IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting
If you purchase a Linux cloud hosting from us, you will be able to see comprehensive traffic statistics for all your sites and if you notice that a large amount of the visits to each of them aren't legitimate, you may block the IP addresses that have created the most traffic via our IP Blocking tool. The interface is incredibly 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 the addresses which you have blacklisted shall appear inside the same exact section of the Control Panel, so you're able to always remove any one of them and enable it to access your website again. You'll be able to block entire IP ranges using the tool also - 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 come with a very simple-to-use IP blocking tool, which will permit you to restrict individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your sites with justa couple of mouse clicks and you won't have any problems to do that even if that's your first web hosting account. Once 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 in the IP address inside a box that you will see there and you will be all set. To limit the access for an entire network, you'll have to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you type in 123.123. and do not input 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.