One of the most effective ways to restrict the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of individuals that must not be able to open it. There are many reasons why you should do that. As an illustration, you may want a certain individual not to be able to see your Internet site, or you could limit the access for a whole country. You may also block IP addresses if you notice that there are way too many browser requests from them, if a huge number of spam comments are left on your websites or if a script login page has been loaded a large number of times. In any of these scenarios, the traffic is most probably fake and has been generated by an automatic bot, so you could safely block any suspicious IP address, so as to be on the safe side. In this way, you will also steer clear of the prospect of your web server getting overloaded by way too many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Cloud Website Hosting

If you have a cloud website hosting account with our company and you want to block one or several IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, that is integrated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Using a really simple interface, you could prevent any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it requires to do this is to log inside to your CP, to visit the IP Blocking section, to choose a certain domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You simply won't need to do anything challenging if you'd like to block an entire network - you will just have 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 will be listed inside the same exact section, so you'll be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your sites in a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you need to block one or a number of IP addresses eventually, you'll be able to leverage the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we've supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With simply several mouse clicks, you shall be able to block certain IPs or entire ranges, if necessary. All you'll need to do is choose 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 Internet site, and then type the IP address that you want to block. For an IP range, you simply have to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address depending on the size of the network you want to block. Each of the addresses which you have restricted will be listed in the exact same section and if you want to whitelist any of them, you will be able to do it with only a click at any time.