One of the most effective approaches to restrict the access to your site is to block the IP addresses of the individuals that shouldn't be able to open it. There are various good reasons to do that. For instance, you may want a specific person not to be able to see your website, or you could limit the access for an entire country. You may also block IP addresses if you notice that there are way too many web 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 numerous times. In each of these cases, the traffic is most probably fake and has been generated by an automatic bot, so you may safely block any questionable IP address, so as to be on the safe side. This way, you will also avoid the possibility of your hosting server getting overloaded by many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Shared Website Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool comes with the revolutionary Hepsia hosting CP, offered with all shared website hosting accounts. It shall permit you to block addresses with only a few mouse clicks. No coding skills are necessary, since you will use an intuitive interface - you just need to pick a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type the IP address that you would like to be blocked. You will be able to see all the IP addresses that you have added in the very same section and whitelisting any of them shall take just a click. If you notice that your site is being flooded by different IPs, you shall be able to block a whole IP range as well. This can be performed by omitting the last number of the address. For example, if you wish to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you basically have to type in 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, provided with our semi-dedicated servers, will allow you to solve the challenge with unwanted traffic very easily and quickly. It incorporates an IP blocking tool in which you could add IP addresses with just a couple of clicks. All domains and subdomains you have within the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you simply have to select the one you need and then enter the IP address which should be blocked. If you would like to block a whole range, a C-class network for instance, you simply need to enter the first 3 octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That shall block all 254 addresses, so you'll not have to type in them by hand. Since all the IPs which you include in this section shall be listed, you could effortlessly unblock any of them by clicking the Delete button related to the given IP.