One of the most reliable methods to restrict the access to your site is to block the IP addresses of the individuals which should not be able to open it. There are several reasons why you should do this. As an example, you may want a particular person not to be able to see your site, or you can limit the access for an entire country. You could also block IP addresses if you notice that there are way too many browser requests from them, if many spam comments are left in your Internet sites or if a script login page has been loaded numerous times. In all of these scenarios, the traffic is more than likely fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you may safely block any suspicious IP address, so as to be on the safe side. That way, you'll also steer clear of the chance of your hosting server getting overloaded by way 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 few IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, that's incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Through a pretty simple interface, you are able to prevent 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 within to your Control Panel, to visit the IP Blocking section, to pick 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 shall block the whole range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed in the same exact section, so you will be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with simply a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You shall be able to block IP addresses effortlessly and stop the undesirable traffic to any Internet site hosted in a semi-dedicated server account with our company, considering the fact that we offer a rather easy-to-use tool to do that, that is provided with our Hepsia hosting CP. Even if you haven't dealt with this type of problems in the past, you won't have any difficulties, since our tool includes a very user-friendly interface. When you go to the IP blocking section of the CP, you will find a comprehensive list of all the domains and subdomains you have added in the Hosted Domains section. All you need to do to block an IP address is select the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then input the IP within the box below. The change shall take effect straightaway, so you'll not get any traffic from this address in the future. Taking away an IP from the blocked list is equally simple.