One of the most productive ways to restrict the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of the people that mustn't be able to open it. There are numerous reasons to do this. For instance, you may want a certain person not to be able to see your site, or you may restrict the access for a whole nation. You could also block IP addresses if you notice that there are way too many Internet browser requests from them, if a lot of 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 situations, the traffic is most probably fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you can safely block any suspicious IP address, so as to be on the safe side. Thus, you shall also avoid the prospect of your hosting server getting overloaded by 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 number of IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, that's integrated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Through a really 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 takes to do that is to log in to your Control Panel, to navigate to the IP Blocking section, to choose a specific domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to type in the IP address. You simply won't need to do anything complicated if you wish to block an entire network - you will just need to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot shall block the full range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed in the exact same section, so you'll be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your sites within a semi-dedicated server account with us and you want to block one or several IP addresses sooner or later, you may leverage the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we have provided with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With simply several mouse clicks, you'll be able to block individual IPs or entire ranges, if required. All you'll need to do is choose any one 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 site, and then enter the IP address that you would like to block. For an IP range, you simply need to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address based on the size of the network you want to block. Each of the addresses that you have restricted shall be listed within the same section and if you would like to whitelist any one of them, you'll be able to do it with just a click at any time.