One of the most efficient ways to restrict the access to your Internet site is to block the IP addresses of individuals that shouldn't be able to open it. There are several good reasons to do that. As an illustration, you may want a certain individual not to be able to see your Internet site, or you may limit the access for a whole state. You can even block IP addresses if you detect that there are lots of Internet browser requests from them, if many spam comments are left in your Internet sites or if a script login page has been loaded numerous times. In each of these situations, the traffic is almost certainly fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you could safely block any shady IP address, in order to be on the safe side. Thus, you'll also prevent the possibility of your web server getting overloaded by way too many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool comes with the innovative Hepsia hosting Control Panel, offered with all shared hosting accounts. It shall enable you to block addresses with simply a couple of clicks. No coding skills are required, since you will use an intuitive interface - you just need to select a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and input the IP address that you would like to be blocked. You'll be able to see all the IP addresses you have added inside the same section and whitelisting any of them shall take just a mouse click. If you notice your Internet site is being flooded by different IPs, you will be able to block an entire IP range too. This may be completed by omitting the last number of the address. For instance, if you wish 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 Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts include a quite simple-to-use IP blocking tool, which will permit you to restrict individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your Internet sites with justa few mouse clicks and you will not have any difficulties to achieve that even if that is your first hosting account. When you visit the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia CP, you will only have to choose the domain or subdomain you want from a drop-down list, then input the IP address within a box that you will see there and you will be ready. To prohibit the access for a whole network, you have to leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you type 123.123. and do not enter anything within the third and fourth positions, our hosting server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.