One of the most reliable methods to restrict the access to your Internet site is to block the IP addresses of those which mustn't be able to open it. There are several reasons to do that. For instance, you may want a certain individual not to be able to see your site, or you may restrict the access for a whole country. You can even block IP addresses if you discover that there are too many web browser requests from them, if a large number of spam comments are left in your websites or if a script login page has been loaded a lot of times. In all of these cases, the traffic is most probably fake and has been generated by an automatic bot, so you can safely block any suspicious IP address, so as to be on the safe side. In this way, you'll also steer clear of the possibility of your hosting server getting overloaded by too many fake requests.
IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting
Our cloud plans offer an IP blocking tool, so in case you would like to limit the access to your Internet sites, you'll be able to do so with simply several clicks. The tool is part of the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all accounts and that is very easy to use. As you log in and go to the IP blocking section, you shall just need to select a domain or a subdomain hosted in the account and enter the IP address that needs to be blocked. Our system enables you to block whole networks as well, so if you type in 123.123.123., for instance, this will block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your sites. In case you want to whitelist an IP at some point, you may unblock it with just a mouse click from the same section.