One of the most productive approaches 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 several good reasons to do that. For example, you may want a certain person not to be able to see your site, or you could limit the access for an entire state. You can even block IP addresses if you notice that there are lots of 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 a lot of times. In all of these cases, the traffic is more than likely fake and has been generated by an automatic bot, so you could safely block any shady IP address, so as to be on the safe side. This way, you shall also steer clear of the possibility of your 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 wish to block one or a number of IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, that is incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. Using a really simple interface, you are able to prevent any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it requires to complete that is to log inside to your CP, to check out the IP Blocking section, to select a certain domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You will not have to do anything complicated if you want to block a whole network - you will just have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot will block the full range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed within the very same section, so you will be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with just a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts feature a very simple-to-use IP blocking tool, which will permit you to restrict individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your sites with justseveral clicks and you won't have any issues to do that even if this is your first web hosting account. As soon as you check out the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you'll just have to select the domain or subdomain you want from a drop-down list, then type in the IP address inside a box that you'll see there and you will be good to go. To prohibit the access for an entire network, you need to leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you type 123.123. and do not type in anything within the third and fourth positions, our web server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.