One of the most reliable approaches to restrict the access to your site is to block the IP addresses of the individuals which must not be able to open it. There are numerous good reasons to do that. For example, you may want a specific individual not to be able to see your site, or you could limit the access for an entire nation. You can even block IP addresses if you detect that there are lots of web browser requests from them, if a huge number of spam comments are left within your sites or if a script login page has been loaded numerous times. In all of these situations, the traffic is almost certainly fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you can safely block any questionable IP address, to be on the safe side. Thus, you will also stay away from the prospect of your hosting server getting overloaded by many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Web Hosting

If you have a web hosting account with us and you would like to block one or several IP addresses, you may use the IP Blocking tool, which is included in our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. By using a pretty simple interface, you'll be able to prevent any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it takes to perform this is to log inside to your Control Panel, to go to the IP Blocking section, to choose a certain domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to type in the IP address. You won't need to do anything complicated if you'd like 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 will block the whole range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed in the same section, so you shall be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with simply a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, offered with our Linux semi-dedicated hosting packages, will permit you to solve the issue with unwanted traffic very efficiently. It incorporates an IP blocking tool where you may add IP addresses with only several clicks. All domains and subdomains you have within the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you just need to pick the one you need and then enter the IP address that has to be blocked. If you want to block an entire range, a C-class network for instance, you simply need to type the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. This will block all 254 addresses, so you will not need to input them manually. Since all the IPs that you include in this section shall be listed, you can easily unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button relevant to the given IP.