One of the most reliable ways to restrict the access to your Internet site is to block the IP addresses of the people which shouldn't be able to open it. There are numerous good reasons to do this. For instance, you may want a specific individual not to be able to see your website, or you may restrict the access for an entire country. You could also block IP addresses in case you notice that there are lots of browser requests from them, if a large number of spam comments are left on your Internet sites or if a script login page has been loaded a large number of times. In each of these scenarios, the traffic is almost certainly fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you may safely block any shady IP address, to be on the safe side. That way, you shall also steer clear of the possibility of your hosting 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 want to block one or a number of IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, that's integrated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. By using a pretty simple interface, you could prevent any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it requires to perform that is to log within to your Control Panel, to navigate to the IP Blocking section, to select a specific domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You will not need to do anything difficult if you'd like to block a whole 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 shall be listed within the same exact section, so you'll be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with only a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, offered with our Linux semi-dedicated hosting, will enable you to solve the challenge with unwanted traffic very easily and quickly. It includes an IP blocking tool in which you can add IP addresses with a few clicks. All domains and subdomains which you have within the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you simply have to pick the one you need and then type the IP address that needs to be blocked. If you wish to block a whole range, a C-class network for instance, you simply need to input the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. This shall block all 254 addresses, so you'll not have to input them by hand. Because all the IPs which you add in this section shall be listed, you could easily unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button related to the particular IP.