One of the most effective ways to limit the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of the individuals which should not be able to open it. There are numerous good reasons to do that. For example, you may want a certain person not to be able to see your site, or you may restrict the access for a whole nation. You can even block IP addresses if you notice that there are way too many browser requests from them, if a large number of spam comments are left within your websites or if a script login page has been loaded a large number of times. In each of these cases, the traffic is most likely fake and has been created by an automatic bot, so you may safely block any shady IP address, in order to be on the safe side. Thus, you will also prevent the prospect of your server getting overloaded by many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Shared Web Hosting

If you buy a shared web hosting plan from our company, you will be able to see detailed traffic statistics for all your websites and if you notice that a lot of the visits to each of them aren't legitimate, you can block the IP addresses that have produced the most traffic through our IP Blocking tool. The interface is extremely simple - choose the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then input the IP address that you want to block and save the change. All of the addresses that you've blacklisted will appear in the exact same section of the Control Panel, so you're able to always remove any one of them and enable it to access your Internet site again. You are able to block whole IP ranges via the tool also - you just need to leave one or two octets from the address blank. For example, entering 1.2.3. will block all 254 IPs from 1.2.3.1 to 1.2.3.255.