One of the most effective approaches to restrict the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of the individuals which must not be able to open it. There are several reasons to do this. As an illustration, you may want a particular individual not to be able to see your site, or you may restrict the access for a whole country. You can even block IP addresses if you notice that there are way too many web browser requests from them, if a huge number of spam comments are left on your Internet sites or if a script login page has been loaded many times. In all of these scenarios, the traffic is more than likely fake and has been created by an automatic bot, so you could safely block any questionable IP address, to be on the safe side. That way, you shall also avoid the chance of your hosting server getting overloaded by many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Hosting

If you have a hosting account with our company and you want to block one or several IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, that's incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. By using a rather simple interface, you'll be able to stop any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it requires to complete that is to log within to your Control Panel, to navigate to the IP Blocking section, to choose a certain domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You shall not have to do anything complex if you wish to block an entire network - you will simply have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot shall block the entire range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed inside the same section, so you will be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with just a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with our semi-dedicated hosting, will enable you to solve the matter with unwanted traffic very easily and quickly. It includes an IP blocking tool in which you could add IP addresses with just several mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains which you have inside the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you just have to select the one you need and then type the IP address that has to be blocked. If you would like to block a whole range, a C-class network for example, you simply need to input 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 enter them by hand. Since all the IPs which you add in this section will be listed, you could easily unblock any of them by clicking the Delete button associated with the particular IP.