One of the most efficient approaches to restrict the access to your Internet site is to block the IP addresses of the individuals which must not be able to open it. There are various good reasons to do that. For instance, you may want a certain person not to be able to see your website, or you could limit the access for an entire country. 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 on your Internet sites or if a script login page has been loaded many times. In all of these cases, the traffic is most probably fake and has been generated by an automatic bot, so you may safely block any shady IP address, to be on the safe side. That way, you will also prevent the chance of your server getting overloaded by many fake requests.
IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting
If you get a cloud hosting service from our company, you'll be able to see detailed traffic stats for all your sites and if you notice that many of the visits to each of them are not legit, you can block the IP addresses that have created the most traffic through 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 want to block and save the change. All the addresses which you have blacklisted will appear in the same section of the Control Panel, so you can always remove any one of them and permit it to access your website again. You can block entire IP ranges via the tool also - you just have 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'll be able to block IP addresses effortlessly and stop the unwanted traffic to any Internet site hosted in a semi-dedicated server account with us, because we provide a really easy-to-use tool to do that, that's our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Even if you have not tackled such matters in the past, you shall not have any difficulties, as our tool features a very user-friendly interface. As you check out the IP blocking section of the CP, you shall find a full list of all the domains and subdomains that you have added in the Hosted Domains section. All you should do to block an IP address is pick the desired domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and input the IP inside the box below. The change shall take effect immediately, so you'll not get any traffic from this address in the future. Taking away an IP from the blocked list is just as simple.