One of the most productive methods to restrict the access to your site is to block the IP addresses of the people which should not be able to open it. There are various good reasons to do this. As an illustration, you may want a certain person not to be able to see your site, or you could restrict the access for a whole nation. You can also block IP addresses in case you discover that there are too many web browser requests from them, if a large number of spam comments are left on your sites or if a script login page has been loaded many times. In each of these cases, the traffic is most probably fake and has been generated by an automatic bot, so you could safely block any questionable IP address, so as to be on the safe side. Thus, you'll also prevent the chance of your server getting overloaded by many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Cloud Web Hosting

If you have a cloud web hosting account with our company and you wish 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. Using a very 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 perform this is to log within to your CP, to check out 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 will not 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 whole range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed within the very same section, so you shall be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with only a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your Internet sites within a semi-dedicated server account with us and you wish to block one or numerous IP addresses eventually, you can leverage the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we have included in our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With simply several clicks, you shall be able to block certain IPs or whole ranges, if needed. All you shall have to do is choose any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, select if the blocking should be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder which is part of the website, and then type in the IP address that you'd like to block. For an IP range, you only 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 of the addresses which you have restricted shall be listed in the same exact section and if you would like to whitelist any one of them, you will be able to do it with only a click at any time.