One of the most effective approaches to restrict the access to your Internet site is to block the IP addresses of the individuals that should not be able to open it. There are several reasons why you should do this. For example, you may want a particular individual not to be able to see your Internet site, or you could limit the access for an entire country. You may also block IP addresses if you detect that there are too many web browser requests from them, if a huge number of spam comments are left on your Internet sites or if a script login page has been loaded numerous times. In any of these situations, the traffic is most probably fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you can safely block any questionable IP address, so as to be on the safe side. That way, you'll also stay away from the prospect of your hosting server getting overloaded by too many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Website Hosting

If you have a website hosting account with our company and you wish to block one or a number of IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, that's integrated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. By using a rather simple interface, you could prevent any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it requires to complete this is to log within to your Control Panel, to visit the IP Blocking section, to pick a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You won't need to do anything difficult if you want to block a whole network - you will 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 will be listed within the very same section, so you will be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with simply a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, provided with our semi-dedicated servers, will allow you to solve the challenge with unwanted traffic very easily. It comes with an IP blocking tool where you could add IP addresses with only several mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains that you have in the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only need to pick the one you need and then enter the IP address that needs to be blocked. If you wish to block a whole range, a C-class network for example, you simply need to type in the first 3 octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. This shall block all 254 addresses, so you shall not have to enter them manually. As all the IPs which you include in this section shall be listed, you could easily unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button associated with the given IP.