One of the most effective ways to restrict the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of individuals which mustn't be able to open it. There are various reasons why you should do that. For example, you may want a particular person not to be able to see your site, or you may limit the access for an entire nation. You may also block IP addresses if you notice that there are way too many browser requests from them, if many spam comments are left within your Internet sites or if a script login page has been loaded a large number of times. In each of these cases, the traffic is almost certainly fake and has been generated by an automatic bot, so you can safely block any questionable IP address, in order to be on the safe side. Thus, you shall also prevent the chance of your hosting server getting overloaded by too many fake requests.
IP Blocking in Shared Hosting
If you have a shared hosting account with our company and you would like to block one or a number of IP addresses, you may use the IP Blocking tool, that's incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. Through a rather simple interface, you'll be able to prevent any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it requires to perform that is to log in to your Control Panel, to check out the IP Blocking section, to pick a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You simply won't have to do anything difficult if you want 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 within the exact same section, so you'll 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 come with a rather simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will allow you to prohibit individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your Internet sites with simplya couple of clicks and you won't have any problems to achieve that even if that is your first hosting account. Once you check out the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia CP, you'll only have to pick the domain or subdomain you want from a drop-down list, then type the IP address in a box that you will see there and you will be all set. To restrict the access for an entire network, you'll have to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you type 123.123. and don't type anything within the third and fourth positions, our server shall deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.