One of the most efficient methods to limit the access to your site is to block the IP addresses of individuals which mustn't be able to open it. There are various reasons why you should do that. For example, you may want a certain person not to be able to see your website, or you may restrict the access for a whole nation. You can also block IP addresses in case you notice that there are too many web browser requests from them, if a huge number of spam comments are left on your websites or if a script login page has been loaded a large number of times. In all of these cases, the traffic is almost certainly fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you may safely block any suspicious IP address, so as to be on the safe side. That way, you will also avoid the prospect of your hosting server getting overloaded by many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Hosting

If you buy a hosting plan from us, you will be able to see in depth traffic stats for all of your Internet sites and if you notice that a lot of the visits to each of them aren't legitimate, you are able to block the IP addresses which have generated the most traffic via our IP Blocking tool. The interface is extremely simple - select 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 you have blacklisted will appear in the exact same section of the CP, allowing you to always remove any of them and enable it to access your site again. You'll be able to block whole IP ranges via the tool also - you just need to leave 1 or 2 octets from the address blank. As an example, entering 1.2.3. will block all 254 IPs from 1.2.3.1 to 1.2.3.255.