One of the most productive ways to limit the access to your site is to block the IP addresses of the people which should not be able to open it. There are various good reasons to do that. As an illustration, you may want a certain individual not to be able to see your site, or you can limit the access for a whole country. You may also block IP addresses in case you notice that there are too many browser requests from them, if a large number of spam comments are left in your Internet sites or if a script login page has been loaded a large number of times. In any of these scenarios, the traffic is most likely 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. In this way, you will also stay away from the possibility of your web server getting overloaded by many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool comes with the ground breaking Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all shared hosting accounts. It'll enable you to block addresses with only a few mouse clicks. No coding skills are needed, since you'll use an intuitive interface - you just have to select a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and input the IP address that you'd like to be blocked. You'll be able to see all the IP addresses which you have added inside the same section and whitelisting each of them will take just a click. If you notice that your site is being flooded by numerous IPs, you shall be able to block an entire IP range too. This could be done by omitting the last number of the address. For instance, if you want to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you simply need to input 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you would like to block one or several IP addresses at some point, you may take advantage of the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we have supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With only a couple of clicks, you will be able to block specific IPs or whole ranges, if required. All you'll have to do is pick out any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, select if the blocking should be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that is part of the website, and then type the IP address you want to block. For an IP range, you simply have to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address in accordance with the size of the network which you want to block. All of the addresses that you've restricted shall be listed inside the exact same section and if you wish to whitelist any of them, you shall be able to do it with only a mouse click anytime.