One of the most effective approaches to limit the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of the individuals that must not be able to open it. There are many reasons why you should do this. For instance, you may want a specific individual not to be able to see your Internet site, or you may limit the access for a whole nation. You may also block IP addresses if you discover that there are way too many browser requests from them, if a lot 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 more than likely fake and has been created by an automatic bot, so you may safely block any suspicious IP address, in order to be on the safe side. In this way, you'll also steer clear of the prospect of your server getting overloaded by a lot of fake requests.

IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting account with us and you want to block one or a few IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, that's integrated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. By using a rather simple interface, you are able to restrict 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 navigate to the IP Blocking section, to select a certain domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You won't need to do anything complicated if you'd like to block a whole network - you will 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 shall be listed inside the very same section, so you will be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with only a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your sites inside a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you would like to block one or a few IP addresses sooner or later, you could leverage the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we have supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With simply a few clicks, you'll be able to block particular IPs or entire ranges, if needed. All you'll need to do is select any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, choose if the blocking must be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder which is part of the site, 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 based on the size of the network you want to block. All the addresses which you have restricted shall be listed inside the very same section and if you want to whitelist any one of them, you'll be able to do it with a click whenever you want.