One of the most effective ways to restrict the access to your Internet site is to block the IP addresses of those that shouldn't be able to open it. There are numerous reasons why you should do this. For instance, you may want a specific individual not to be able to see your site, or you may limit the access for a whole country. You can even block IP addresses if you discover that there are way too many browser requests from them, if a huge number of spam comments are left on your Internet 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 can safely block any questionable IP address, so as to be on the safe side. This way, you'll also prevent the prospect of your web server getting overloaded by too many fake requests.
IP Blocking in Hosting
If you purchase a Linux hosting package from our company, you shall be able to see in depth traffic stats for all your Internet sites and if you notice that a large amount of the visits to each of them are not legit, you'll be able to block the IP addresses which have produced the most traffic via 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'd like to block and save the change. All the addresses you have blacklisted shall appear in the same exact section of the Control Panel, allowing you to always remove any of them and allow it to access your website again. You are able to block whole IP ranges using the tool as well - you just need 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 Hosting
The Hepsia hosting CP, included with our Linux semi-dedicated hosting packages, will allow you to solve the problem with unwanted traffic very easily and quickly. It includes an IP blocking tool in which you could add IP addresses with a couple of mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains that you have in the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you just need to pick the one you need and then enter the IP address which needs to be blocked. If you wish to block a whole range, a C-class network for instance, you just have to type in the first 3 octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. This will block all 254 addresses, so you'll not have to type them by hand. Because all the IPs that you add in this section shall be listed, you could quickly unblock any of them by clicking the Delete button relevant to the particular IP.