{"id":7885,"date":"2026-02-09T09:06:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T09:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/?p=7885"},"modified":"2026-10-29T15:15:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T15:15:49","slug":"restricting-ip-addresses-on-agency-hosting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/restricting-ip-addresses-on-agency-hosting\/","title":{"rendered":"Restricting IP addresses on Agency hosting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hostinger <a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-agency-hosting\" href=\"\/pro\">Agency Hosting<\/a> lets you restrict IP addresses to control who can access your website, blocking malicious traffic, unauthorized access attempts, and unwanted visitors.<\/p><h2 id=\"h-what-is-ip-address-restriction\"><b>What is IP address restriction?<\/b><\/h2><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">IP address restriction is a security measure that blocks or permits access to your website based on the visitor&rsquo;s IP address. When you block an IP address, any requests from that address will be denied access to your site.<\/span><\/p><p><b>Common use cases:<\/b><\/p><ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Blocking malicious bots and scrapers<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Preventing brute force login attempts<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stopping spam submissions<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Restricting access during site development<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Blocking traffic from specific regions or competitors<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Protecting against DDoS attacks<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><h2 id=\"h-how-to-block-ip-addresses\"><b>How to block IP addresses<\/b><\/h2><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Use <\/span><b>IP<\/b> <b>blacklist<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> feature in Hostinger dashboard:<\/span><\/p><ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Go to <\/span><b>Security<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> section in your website dashboard<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Select <\/span><b>IP Blacklist<br>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7886 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/02\/ip-blacklist-1.png\/public\" alt=\"Security menu with IP Blacklist option highlighted\" width=\"466\" height=\"376\" data-media-id=\"7886\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/02\/ip-blacklist-1.png\/w=466,fit=scale-down 466w, https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/02\/ip-blacklist-1.png\/w=300,fit=scale-down 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><br>\n<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Add IP addresses you want to block<br>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7869 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/02\/ip-blacklist.png\/public\" alt=\"Websites IP blacklist page with IP address input and Add IP address button\" width=\"2000\" height=\"362\" data-media-id=\"7869\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/02\/ip-blacklist.png\/w=2000,fit=scale-down 2000w, https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/02\/ip-blacklist.png\/w=300,fit=scale-down 300w, https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/02\/ip-blacklist.png\/w=1024,fit=scale-down 1024w, https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/02\/ip-blacklist.png\/w=768,fit=scale-down 768w, https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/02\/ip-blacklist.png\/w=1536,fit=scale-down 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><br>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Save changes by clicking <strong>Add IP address<\/strong> button<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol><p>Restricting IP addresses helps keep your websites secure from unwanted or malicious traffic. For more on your plan&rsquo;s features, see <a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-how-to-get-started-with-hostinger-agency-hosting-plans\" href=\"\/support\/10656861-hostinger-agency-hosting-plans-how-to-get-started\/\">how to get started with Hostinger Agency Hosting plans.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hostinger Agency Hosting lets you restrict IP addresses to control who can access your website, blocking malicious traffic, unauthorized access attempts, and unwanted visitors.What is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agency-hosting-plans"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/restricting-ip-addresses-on-agency-hosting","default":1}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7885"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23583,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7885\/revisions\/23583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}