One of the most effective approaches to limit the access to your site is to block the IP addresses of the individuals that shouldn't be able to open it. There are many reasons why you should do that. As an illustration, you may want a particular individual not to be able to see your site, or you may restrict the access for a whole state. You can even block IP addresses if you detect that there are too many web browser requests from them, if many spam comments are left within your sites or if a script login page has been loaded numerous times. In each of these situations, the traffic is most likely fake and has been generated by an automatic bot, so you may safely block any shady IP address, so as to be on the safe side. In this way, you'll also steer clear of the possibility of your server getting overloaded by many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Hosting

If you have a hosting account with our company and you want to block one or several IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, that is integrated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. By using a very simple interface, you could restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it takes to perform that is to log in to your Control Panel, to check out the IP Blocking section, to choose a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You will not have to do anything complex if you'd like to block an entire network - you'll simply have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot will block the full range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed in the same section, so you'll be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with only a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your websites in a semi-dedicated server account with us and you need to block one or a few IP addresses at some point, you are able to take advantage of the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we have included in our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With a couple of mouse clicks, you shall be able to block specific IPs or whole ranges, if required. All you'll have to do is pick any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, choose if the blocking needs to be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that's part of the website, and then type in the IP address that you'd like to block. For an IP range, you simply have to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address with regards to the size of the network that you want to block. All the addresses which you have restricted shall be listed inside the very same section and if you want to whitelist any of them, you'll be able to do it with just a click at any time.