One of the most reliable methods to restrict the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of those which should not be able to open it. There are numerous reasons to do that. For example, you may want a particular person not to be able to see your Internet site, or you can limit the access for a whole nation. You may also block IP addresses in case you discover that there are way too many web browser requests from them, if many spam comments are left on your sites or if a script login page has been loaded a large number of times. In any of these situations, the traffic is most probably fake and has been created by an automatic bot, so you may safely block any questionable IP address, to be on the safe side. This way, you will also steer clear of the prospect of your hosting server getting overloaded by way too many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Shared Web Hosting

If you have a shared web hosting account with our company and you wish to block one or a number of IP addresses, you may use the IP Blocking tool, that is included in our in-house built Hepsia CP. Using a very simple interface, you are able to restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it takes to complete that is to log inside to your Control Panel, to go to the IP Blocking section, to select a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You shall not have to do anything complex if you want to block an entire network - you will 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 exact same section, so you will be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with just a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with our Linux semi-dedicated hosting plans, will enable you to solve the problem with unwanted traffic very easily. It comes with an IP blocking tool where you may add IP addresses with just a couple of clicks. All domains and subdomains that you have within the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you just need to select the one you need and then input the IP address that has to be blocked. If you wish to block an entire range, a C-class network for example, you simply need to type the first 3 octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. This will block all 254 addresses, so you shall not need to enter them by hand. Considering that all the IPs that you add in this section shall be listed, you may easily unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button associated with the particular IP.