One of the most effective ways to limit the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of those which should not be able to open it. There are several good reasons to do that. For example, you may want a certain individual not to be able to see your website, or you could restrict the access for an entire nation. You can even block IP addresses if you discover that there are too many Internet browser requests from them, if many spam comments are left within your Internet sites or if a script login page has been loaded a large number of times. In any of these situations, the traffic is most probably fake and has been generated by an automatic bot, so you may safely block any suspicious IP address, to be on the safe side. In this way, you'll also steer clear of the prospect of your web server getting overloaded by many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Shared Website Hosting

If you have a shared website hosting account with our company and you wish to block one or a few IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, that's integrated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. By using a really simple interface, you can 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 CP, to navigate to the IP Blocking section, to pick a specific domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You shall not have to do anything complicated if you want to block a whole network - you'll just have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot will block the whole range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed inside the same exact section, so you will be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with simply a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with our semi-dedicated servers, will enable you to solve the matter with unwanted traffic very easily. It comes with an IP blocking tool in which you can add IP addresses with only a few clicks. All domains and subdomains which you have inside the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you just need to select the one you need and then input the IP address that should be blocked. If you want to block a whole range, a C-class network for instance, you just have to enter the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. This shall block all 254 addresses, so you shall not have to type them by hand. Because all the IPs that you add in this section shall be listed, you could very easily unblock any of them by clicking the Delete button related to the given IP.