One of the most productive ways 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 specific individual not to be able to see your website, or you can restrict the access for a whole state. You can also block IP addresses if you notice that there are lots of browser requests from them, if a large number of spam comments are left within your sites or if a script login page has been loaded a lot of times. In any of these scenarios, the traffic is most likely fake and has been generated by an automatic bot, so you may safely block any questionable IP address, in order to be on the safe side. Thus, you'll also prevent the prospect of your web server getting overloaded by many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting account with us and you wish to block one or a few IP addresses, you may use the IP Blocking tool, that is incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. Using a very simple interface, you could stop any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it takes to perform that is to log in to your Control Panel, to check out the IP Blocking section, to choose a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You won't have to do anything complex if you would like to block an entire network - you will simply have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot shall block the entire range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed in the very same section, so you will be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with just a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your websites within a semi-dedicated server account with us and you need to block one or several IP addresses sooner or later, you'll be able to leverage the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we've supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With simply a few mouse clicks, you'll be able to block particular IPs or entire ranges, if necessary. All you'll have to do is pick out any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, choose if the blocking needs to be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder which is part of the site, and then type the IP address that you'd like 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 that you want to block. All the addresses you have restricted will be listed within the exact same section and if you want to whitelist any one of them, you'll be able to do it with only a mouse click anytime.