One of the most effective approaches to limit the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of the individuals which shouldn't be able to open it. There are numerous reasons why you should do this. As an example, you may want a specific person not to be able to see your Internet site, or you could limit the access for an entire state. You can even block IP addresses in case you discover that there are too many web browser requests from them, if a lot of spam comments are left within your sites or if a script login page has been loaded numerous times. In each of these cases, the traffic is most probably fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you can safely block any suspicious IP address, to be on the safe side. In this way, you will also steer clear of the possibility of your web server getting overloaded by too many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Web Hosting

If you have a web hosting account with us and you would like to block one or a number of IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, that is incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Using a pretty simple interface, you can prevent any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it requires to do that is to log within to your CP, to check out the IP Blocking section, to pick a certain domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to type in the IP address. You won't need to do anything complex if you'd like 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 full range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed within the same section, so you'll be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your websites in a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you would like to block one or a number of IP addresses at some point, you can use the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we have supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With a few mouse clicks, you shall be able to block individual IPs or entire ranges, if needed. All you shall have to do is select any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, select if the blocking must 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'd like to block. For an IP range, you only need to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address based on the size of the network that you want to block. All the addresses you have restricted will be listed in the same section and if you wish to whitelist any of them, you'll be able to do it with only a mouse click whenever you want.