One of the most effective ways to restrict the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of the people that mustn't be able to open it. There are several good reasons to do this. As an illustration, you may want a specific individual not to be able to see your site, or you can restrict the access for an entire country. You could also block IP addresses in case you discover that there are way too many browser requests from them, if a huge number of spam comments are left in your sites or if a script login page has been loaded a large number of times. In all of these scenarios, the traffic is most likely fake and has been created by an automatic bot, so you can safely block any questionable IP address, to be on the safe side. In this way, you will also avoid the prospect of your web server getting overloaded by many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Website Hosting

If you have a website hosting account with us and you want to block one or several IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, that's incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Using a rather simple interface, you can stop any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it requires to perform this is to log within to your Control Panel, to visit the IP Blocking section, to select a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to type in the IP address. You'll not have to do anything challenging if you'd like to block a whole network - you'll just need 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 very same section, so you'll be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated server account with us and you need to block one or numerous IP addresses at some point, you'll be able to benefit from the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we have included in our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With just a few mouse clicks, you'll be able to block certain IPs or whole ranges, if needed. All you'll need to do is choose 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 which is part of the website, and then type in the IP address that you want to block. For an IP range, you just need to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address in accordance with the size of the network that you want to block. All of the addresses which you have restricted shall be listed within the very same section and if you wish to whitelist any one of them, you shall be able to do it with just a mouse click anytime.