One of the most productive methods to limit the access to your site is to block the IP addresses of those which should not be able to open it. There are several reasons to do that. As an example, you may want a particular individual not to be able to see your site, or you can limit the access for an entire state. You may also block IP addresses in case you detect that there are too many 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 each of these situations, the traffic is almost certainly fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you could safely block any questionable IP address, to be on the safe side. This way, you'll also avoid the prospect of your server getting overloaded by a lot of fake requests.
IP Blocking in Website Hosting
If you get a Linux website hosting plan from our company, you will be able to see in depth traffic stats for all of your sites and if you notice that a considerable amount of the visits to any of them aren't real, you'll be able to block the IP addresses which have generated the most traffic using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is really simple - choose the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then enter the IP address that you would like to block and save the change. All the addresses which you have blacklisted shall appear inside the same section of the CP, so that you can always remove any of them and permit it to access your website again. You could block whole IP ranges via the tool too - you just have to leave 1 or 2 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
If you host your Internet sites within a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you want to block one or several IP addresses eventually, you'll be able to leverage the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we have supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With a few clicks, you'll be able to block certain IPs or entire ranges, if required. All you'll have to do is choose any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, choose if the blocking should be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that is part of the site, and then input the IP address you want to block. For an IP range, you simply need to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address depending on the size of the network that you want to block. All of the addresses that you have restricted shall be listed within the same exact section and if you would like to whitelist any one of them, you will be able to do it with a click at any time.