One of the most productive ways to limit the access to your site is to block the IP addresses of the individuals which should not be able to open it. There are numerous reasons to do that. For instance, you may want a particular individual not to be able to see your website, or you could limit the access for a whole state. You may also block IP addresses if you discover that there are lots of Internet browser requests from them, if a lot of spam comments are left within your sites or if a script login page has been loaded a large number of times. In any of these situations, the traffic is most likely fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you could safely block any suspicious IP address, so as to be on the safe side. In this way, you'll also stay away from the possibility of your server getting overloaded by too many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Website Hosting

If you have a website hosting account with our company and you wish to block one or several IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, which is included in our in-house built Hepsia CP. By using a pretty simple interface, you could restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it takes to perform this is to log within to your CP, to visit the IP Blocking section, to pick a specific domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to type in the IP address. You shall not have to do anything complex if you'd like to block an entire network - you'll just 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 inside the same exact section, so you shall be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with just a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, offered with our Linux semi-dedicated hosting, will permit you to solve the challenge with unwanted traffic very efficiently. It incorporates an IP blocking tool where you could add IP addresses with just a couple of mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains that you have in the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you just need to pick the one you need and then type in the IP address that should be blocked. If you would like to block an entire range, a C-class network for example, you just have to type the first 3 octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. This shall block all 254 addresses, so you will not have to type them by hand. Since all the IPs you include in this section will be listed, you may quickly unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button associated with the particular IP.