# How to add IP whitelist to the server

**URL:** https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/how-to-add-ip-whitelist-to-the-server/95130
**Category:** Hosting Support
**Created:** [June 27, 2024, 2:08am UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/how-to-add-ip-whitelist-to-the-server/95130 "2024-06-27T02:08:58Z")
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#### Post date: [June 27, 2024, 11:07am UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/how-to-add-ip-whitelist-to-the-server/95130/4 "2024-06-27T11:07:08Z")

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If you want to setup an IP whitelist, you can. We don’t really block any IPs by default, or have a whitelist you can add IPs to.

Judging by your message, I suspect something is trying to access your website, is unable to, and now they tell you to look for a whitelist. But there is no whitelist, and they just don’t know how our hosting works.

Instead, most likely whatever is being blocked is being blocked by this system instead:

> [@Ensuring only web browsers can access your website](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/ensuring-only-web-browsers-can-access-your-website/49353):
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> InfinityFree is a website hosting service. That means that the hosting accounts we provided are intended for hosting websites. Websites contain pages that are accessed through web browsers. InfinityFree is not intended to be used for file sharing, API hosting, database hosting or background tasks/tools. To help enforce this, free hosting enforces a security system that makes sure that anyone trying to access your website is using a normal web browser. This is done by checking whether the web br…

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