One of the most productive ways to restrict the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of those which mustn't be able to open it. There are several reasons why you should do that. As an example, you may want a particular individual not to be able to see your site, or you may restrict the access for an entire state. You could also block IP addresses if you detect that there are lots of Internet browser requests from them, if a huge number of spam comments are left in 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 generated by an automatic bot, so you may safely block any shady IP address, in order to be on the safe side. Thus, you'll also steer clear of the chance of your hosting server getting overloaded by a lot of fake requests.
IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting
If you order a Linux cloud hosting plan from us, you shall be able to see comprehensive traffic stats for all your websites and if you notice that a large amount of the visits to each of them aren't legitimate, you may block the IP addresses which have created the most traffic through our IP Blocking tool. The interface is extremely simple - pick the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then input the IP address that you'd like to block and save the change. All the addresses that you've blacklisted will show up inside the same exact section of the Control Panel, allowing you to always remove any one of them and enable it to access your Internet site again. You can block whole IP ranges using the tool as well - you just need to leave 1 or 2 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
You shall be able to block IP addresses easily and stop the unwanted traffic to any site hosted within a semi-dedicated server account with our company, since we offer a really easy-to-use tool to do that, that's provided with our Hepsia hosting CP. Even if you haven't dealt with this sort of issues in the past, you won't have any difficulties, considering that our tool features a very user-friendly interface. Once you visit the IP blocking section of the CP, you shall find a complete list of all the domains and subdomains that you've added within the Hosted Domains section. All you have to do to block an IP address is pick the desired domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then type the IP inside the box below. The change will take effect at once, so you will not get any traffic from this address in the future. Taking away an IP from the blocked list is equally quick.