One of the most productive approaches to limit the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of individuals which shouldn't be able to open it. There are many good reasons to do this. As an illustration, you may want a certain individual not to be able to see your website, or you can restrict the access for an entire nation. You may also block IP addresses in case you detect that there are too many web browser requests from them, if many spam comments are left on your Internet sites or if a script login page has been loaded a lot of times. In all of these scenarios, the traffic is most likely fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you can safely block any suspicious IP address, so as to be on the safe side. In this way, you will also avoid the possibility of your hosting server getting overloaded by too many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting account with our company and you would like to block one or a few IP addresses, you may use the IP Blocking tool, that's included in our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Through a really simple interface, you can restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it requires to complete that is to log within to your Control Panel, to navigate to the IP Blocking section, to choose a specific domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to type in the IP address. You simply won't have to do anything complex if you would like to block a whole network - you will just 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 will be listed inside the same section, so you shall be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with just a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

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