One of the most productive approaches to limit the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of those which should not be able to open it. There are various good reasons to do that. As an illustration, you may want a specific individual not to be able to see your site, or you can limit the access for an entire nation. You may also block IP addresses in case you discover that there are too many web 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 each of these situations, the traffic is most probably fake and has been generated by an automatic bot, so you could safely block any questionable IP address, so as to be on the safe side. That way, you will also stay away from the prospect of your server getting overloaded by way too many fake requests.
IP Blocking in Shared Website Hosting
If you order a shared website hosting plan from us, you shall be able to see detailed traffic stats for all of your sites and if you notice that a lot of the visits to any of them are not real, you could block the IP addresses which have created the most traffic through our IP Blocking tool. The interface is very simple - choose 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 which you have blacklisted will show up in the exact same section of the CP, so you can always remove any one of them and enable it to access your site again. You'll be able to block whole IP ranges via the tool too - you just have 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
The Hepsia hosting CP, offered with our semi-dedicated plans, will permit you to solve the matter with unwanted traffic very easily and quickly. It features an IP blocking tool where you could add IP addresses with a couple of clicks. All domains and subdomains that you have in the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only have to select the one you need and then type the IP address which has to be blocked. If you wish to block a whole range, a C-class network for example, you just have to enter the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That shall block all 254 addresses, so you will not need to type them manually. Considering that all the IPs that you include in this section will be listed, you could easily unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button relevant to the given IP.