One of the most effective approaches to restrict the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of the individuals that must not be able to open it. There are several good reasons to do this. For example, you may want a particular individual not to be able to see your website, or you could restrict the access for an entire country. You can also block IP addresses in case you notice that there are too many Internet browser requests from them, if many spam comments are left in your sites or if a script login page has been loaded a large number of times. In any of these cases, the traffic is more than likely fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you could safely block any questionable IP address, so as to be on the safe side. This way, you shall also steer clear of 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 us and you want to block one or a number of IP addresses, you may use the IP Blocking tool, that's incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. By using a pretty simple interface, you are able to restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it requires to perform that is to log inside to your CP, to check out the IP Blocking section, to choose a specific 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 want 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 shall block the full 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 of them from the blacklist with simply a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, included with our semi-dedicated servers, will permit you to solve the matter with unwanted traffic very efficiently. It includes an IP blocking tool where you can add IP addresses with only a few clicks. All domains and subdomains that you have in the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you just need to pick the one you need and then enter the IP address that should be blocked. If you wish to block an entire range, a C-class network for instance, you just need to enter the first 3 octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. This will block all 254 addresses, so you shall not have to type them manually. Since all the IPs you include in this section will be listed, you may quickly unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button relevant to the particular IP.