One of the most productive approaches to restrict the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of individuals that shouldn't be able to open it. There are several reasons why you should do this. For example, you may want a specific person not to be able to see your Internet site, or you may limit the access for an entire state. You may also block IP addresses in case you detect that there are too many 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 large number of times. In any of these situations, the traffic is most likely fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you can safely block any suspicious IP address, to be on the safe side. This way, you'll also avoid the possibility of your hosting server getting overloaded by many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Cloud Website Hosting

If you buy a Linux cloud website hosting from our company, you'll be able to see detailed traffic statistics for all of your websites and if you notice that a considerable amount of the visits to each of them are not legit, you'll be able to block the IP addresses that have generated the most traffic using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is quite simple - choose the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then type the IP address that you want to block and save the change. All the addresses that you have blacklisted will appear in the exact same section of the Control Panel, allowing you to always remove any one of them and allow it to access your website again. You are able to block entire IP ranges through the tool also - you just have to leave 1 or 2 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.