One of the most reliable approaches to limit the access to your Internet site is to block the IP addresses of those that should not be able to open it. There are many reasons to do this. For example, you may want a particular individual not to be able to see your site, or you may restrict the access for an entire country. You could also block IP addresses in case you notice that there are way too many browser requests from them, if a huge number of spam comments are left on your sites or if a script login page has been loaded many times. In all of these cases, the traffic is most likely fake and has been generated by an automatic bot, so you can safely block any shady IP address, in order to be on the safe side. This way, you will also avoid the possibility of your hosting server getting overloaded by many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Cloud Web Hosting

If you buy a cloud web hosting plan from us, you shall be able to see detailed traffic stats for all of your sites and if you notice that many of the visits to each of them aren't legit, you can block the IP addresses which have created the most traffic by using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is incredibly simple - pick the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then input the IP address you want to block and save the change. All of the addresses that you have blacklisted shall appear inside the same section of the CP, allowing you to always remove any of them and enable it to access your site again. You are able to block whole IP ranges through 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

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with our semi-dedicated plans, will allow you to solve the issue with unwanted traffic very easily and quickly. It incorporates an IP blocking tool where you may add IP addresses with only a couple of mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains you have in the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only need to choose the one you need and then type in the IP address that needs to be blocked. If you want to block a whole range, a C-class network for example, you just need to enter the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. This will block all 254 addresses, so you'll not need to enter them by hand. Since all the IPs which you add in this section shall be listed, you could very easily unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button related to the given IP.