One of the most productive ways to limit the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of individuals which mustn't be able to open it. There are several reasons to do this. As an example, you may want a particular individual not to be able to see your website, or you may restrict the access for a whole country. You can also block IP addresses in case you discover that there are way too many Internet browser requests from them, if a large number of spam comments are left in your sites or if a script login page has been loaded many times. In each of these situations, the traffic is more than likely fake and has been generated by an automatic bot, so you can safely block any shady IP address, so as to be on the safe side. Thus, you'll also steer clear of the prospect of your web server getting overloaded by way too many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool is part of the ground breaking Hepsia hosting Control Panel, offered with all cloud hosting accounts. It shall enable you to block addresses with only several mouse clicks. No coding skills are needed, since you'll 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 will be able to see all the IP addresses that you've added within the same section and whitelisting each of them will take simply a mouse click. If you notice that your website is being flooded by various IPs, you will be able to block an entire IP range too. This may be performed by omitting the last number of the address. For example, if you need to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you basically need to enter 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your sites within a semi-dedicated server account with us and you need to block one or a number of IP addresses eventually, you may take advantage of the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we have provided with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With a few clicks, you will be able to block certain IPs or whole ranges, if needed. All you will have to do is choose any 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 Internet site, and then enter the IP address that you would like to block. For an IP range, you only have to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address with regards to the size of the network that you want to block. All the addresses you have restricted will be listed inside the very same section and if you would like to whitelist any of them, you shall be able to do it with just a click whenever you want.