One of the most productive approaches to limit the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of those which must not 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 website, or you can restrict the access for an entire nation. You can also block IP addresses in case you notice that there are way too many browser requests from them, if many spam comments are left on your Internet sites or if a script login page has been loaded numerous times. In any of these cases, the traffic is more than likely fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you can safely block any questionable IP address, to be on the safe side. This way, you will also avoid the possibility of your web server getting overloaded by many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Shared Website Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool is included with the innovative Hepsia hosting CP, offered with all shared website hosting accounts. It will permit you to block addresses with just a couple of mouse clicks. No coding skills are required, since you will use an intuitive interface - you just have to select a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and enter the IP address you want to be blocked. You will be able to see all the IP addresses that you have added in the same section and whitelisting any of them shall take only a mouse click. If you notice your site is being flooded by different IPs, you shall be able to block a whole IP range too. This can be completed by omitting the last number of the address. For instance, if you wish to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you basically have to input 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, provided with our semi-dedicated plans, will enable you to solve the matter with unwanted traffic very efficiently. It incorporates an IP blocking tool where you could add IP addresses with a few mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains that you have within the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only have to select the one you need and then type in the IP address that has to be blocked. If you wish to block an entire range, a C-class network for instance, you just need to type the first 3 octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That will block all 254 addresses, so you'll not have to type them manually. As all the IPs which you include in this section shall be listed, you may effortlessly unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button associated with the particular IP.