One of the most effective methods to limit the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of the people which should not be able to open it. There are numerous reasons why you should do this. For instance, you may want a certain individual not to be able to see your website, or you may limit the access for an entire country. You can also block IP addresses if you detect that there are way too many web browser requests from them, if a large number of spam comments are left in your websites or if a script login page has been loaded numerous times. In all of these cases, the traffic is most likely fake and has been created by an automatic bot, so you may safely block any questionable IP address, to be on the safe side. This way, you'll also prevent the prospect of your server getting overloaded by way too many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting account with our company and you want to block one or a few IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, that is incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Using a very simple interface, you can prevent any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it takes to complete that is to log inside to your Control Panel, to check out the IP Blocking section, to pick a specific domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You won't have to do anything challenging if you want to block a whole network - you'll just need to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot will block the entire range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed in the same section, so you'll be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your websites within a semi-dedicated server account with us and you wish to block one or numerous IP addresses sooner or later, you could use the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we have provided with our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With only a couple of clicks, you shall be able to block specific IPs or entire ranges, if needed. All you will have to do is select any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, decide if the blocking should be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder which is part of the Internet site, and then enter the IP address that you'd like to block. For an IP range, you simply need to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address based on the size of the network that you want to block. All the addresses that you have restricted shall be listed within the exact same section and if you wish to whitelist any one of them, you shall be able to do it with just a mouse click at any time.