One of the most efficient ways to limit the access to your Internet site is to block the IP addresses of those that shouldn't be able to open it. There are numerous good reasons to do this. As an example, you may want a certain individual not to be able to see your Internet site, or you could restrict the access for a whole state. You can also block IP addresses in case you notice that there are lots of Internet browser requests from them, if many spam comments are left in your websites or if a script login page has been loaded many times. In all of these scenarios, the traffic is more than likely fake and has been created by an automatic bot, so you could safely block any shady IP address, to be on the safe side. This way, you shall also avoid the chance of your server getting overloaded by too many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Shared Website Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool comes with the revolutionary Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all shared website hosting accounts. It'll enable you to block addresses with several mouse clicks. No coding abilities are required, because you shall use an intuitive interface - you just have to choose a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type the IP address that you'd like to be blocked. You shall be able to see all the IP addresses that you've added in the same section and whitelisting any of them shall take simply a click. If you notice that your site is being flooded by different IPs, you will be able to block a whole IP range too. This can be done by omitting the last number of the address. For instance, if you want 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

If you host your Internet sites within a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you wish to block one or numerous IP addresses eventually, you are able to benefit from the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we've provided with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With a couple of clicks, you'll be able to block certain IPs or whole ranges, if necessary. All you will need to do is pick out any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, decide if the blocking must be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that's part of the website, and then input the IP address that you would like to block. For an IP range, you simply have to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address depending on the size of the network you want to block. All the addresses that you have restricted shall be listed within the same exact section and if you want to whitelist any one of them, you'll be able to do it with only a click whenever you want.