One of the most reliable approaches to limit the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of those that mustn't be able to open it. There are many reasons why you should do this. As an illustration, you may want a particular person not to be able to see your website, or you could restrict the access for an entire nation. You can even block IP addresses if you detect that there are lots of browser requests from them, if many spam comments are left within your Internet sites or if a script login page has been loaded many times. In all of these situations, the traffic is most likely fake and has been created by an automatic bot, so you can safely block any questionable IP address, so as to be on the safe side. That way, you will also avoid the chance of your web server getting overloaded by way too many fake requests.
IP Blocking in Website Hosting
If you buy a Linux website hosting service from our company, you'll be able to see in depth traffic stats for all your websites and if you notice that a lot of the visits to any of them aren't legit, you can block the IP addresses which have produced the most traffic by using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is quite simple - select 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 shall appear in the exact same section of the Control Panel, so you can always remove any of them and allow it to access your site again. You'll be able to block entire IP ranges through the tool too - you simply need to leave one or two octets from the address blank. For instance, 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
You will be able to block IP addresses without difficulty and stop the undesirable traffic to any website hosted inside a semi-dedicated server account with us, as we offer a rather easy-to-use tool to do that, which is included with our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Even if you have never tackled this kind of matters in the past, you shall not have any difficulties, since our tool has a very user-friendly interface. When you visit the IP blocking section of the Control Panel, you will find a comprehensive list of all the domains and subdomains which you have added inside the Hosted Domains section. All you have to do to block an IP address is choose the desired domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then input the IP inside the box below. The change will take effect instantly, so you'll not get any traffic from this address in the future. Removing an IP from the blocked list is equally uncomplicated.