One of the most efficient methods to restrict the access to your Internet site is to block the IP addresses of the people which shouldn't be able to open it. There are various reasons why you should do this. For example, you may want a certain individual not to be able to see your Internet site, or you may limit the access for a whole nation. You could also block IP addresses if you detect that there are way too many Internet browser requests from them, if a huge number of spam comments are left within your Internet sites or if a script login page has been loaded numerous times. In any of these cases, the traffic is almost certainly fake and has been created by an automatic bot, so you could safely block any suspicious IP address, in order to be on the safe side. In this way, you will also prevent the prospect of your hosting server getting overloaded by many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Website Hosting

If you have a website hosting account with our company and you wish to block one or a few IP addresses, you may use the IP Blocking tool, that's incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. Through a rather simple interface, you are able to stop any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it requires to do this is to log inside to your CP, to visit the IP Blocking section, to choose a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You'll not need to do anything challenging if you want to block an entire network - you'll just need to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot shall block the whole range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed in the same section, so you shall be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with simply a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated server account with us and you would like to block one or a few IP addresses sooner or later, you could use the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we have included in our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With several mouse clicks, you shall be able to block individual IPs or entire ranges, if necessary. All you'll have to do is pick out any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, decide if the blocking needs to be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that is part of the site, and then type the IP address that you want to block. For an IP range, you simply need to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address depending on the size of the network which you want to block. All the addresses that you've restricted shall be listed in the same exact section and if you would like to whitelist any one of them, you shall be able to do it with only a click at any time.