One of the most productive methods to limit the access to your site is to block the IP addresses of individuals which shouldn't be able to open it. There are many good reasons to do that. As an illustration, you may want a particular person not to be able to see your site, or you may limit the access for an entire country. You may also block IP addresses in case you discover that there are too many browser requests from them, if many spam comments are left in your sites or if a script login page has been loaded many times. In any of these scenarios, the traffic is most likely fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you could safely block any shady IP address, to be on the safe side. Thus, you'll also stay away from the chance of your web server getting overloaded by a lot of fake requests.
IP Blocking in Shared Hosting
If you buy a shared hosting plan from our company, you shall be able to see comprehensive traffic statistics for all your sites and if you notice that a large amount of the visits to any of them are not legitimate, you could block the IP addresses that have generated the most traffic by using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is very simple - choose 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 of the addresses you have blacklisted shall appear in the exact same section of the Control Panel, so you can always remove any one of them and enable it to access your site again. You'll be able to block entire IP ranges through the tool also - you simply 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.
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you host your websites in a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you want to block one or a number of IP addresses eventually, you could benefit from the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we've provided with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With a few clicks, you shall be able to block certain IPs or entire ranges, if necessary. All you shall have to do is choose any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, choose if the blocking should be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder which is part of the website, and then enter the IP address you want to block. For an IP range, you only need to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address with regards to the size of the network which you want to block. Each of the addresses that you have restricted will be listed within the same exact section and if you would like to whitelist any of them, you'll be able to do it with simply a mouse click at any time.