One of the most efficient ways to restrict the access to your Internet site is to block the IP addresses of the individuals which should not be able to open it. There are various reasons to do this. For example, you may want a specific person not to be able to see your Internet site, or you may limit the access for a whole country. You may also block IP addresses if you notice that there are lots of web browser requests from them, if a huge number of spam comments are left within your Internet sites or if a script login page has been loaded numerous times. In each of these situations, the traffic is more than 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. Thus, you'll also stay away from the chance of your web server getting overloaded by a lot of fake requests.

IP Blocking in Shared Website Hosting

If you have a shared website hosting account with us and you wish to block one or a few IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, that's included in our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. By using a rather simple interface, you could restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it takes to perform that is to log within to your CP, to go to the IP Blocking section, to select a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You shall not need to do anything challenging if you wish to block an entire 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 full range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed inside the very same section, so you'll 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, provided with our semi-dedicated hosting services, will enable you to solve the challenge with unwanted traffic very easily and quickly. It incorporates an IP blocking tool in which you may add IP addresses with only a few mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains that you have in the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only need to select the one you need and then type the IP address that should be blocked. If you would like to block an entire range, a C-class network for example, you just need to type in the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That shall block all 254 addresses, so you shall not have to input them by hand. Since all the IPs you include in this section shall be listed, you could very easily unblock any of them by clicking the Delete button related to the given IP.