One of the most productive ways to limit the access to your Internet site is to block the IP addresses of the people which must not be able to open it. There are several reasons why you should do this. For instance, you may want a specific person not to be able to see your Internet site, or you can limit the access for an entire country. You could also block IP addresses in case you discover that there are way too many web browser requests from them, if many spam comments are left within your websites or if a script login page has been loaded many times. In all of these scenarios, the traffic is more than likely fake and has been generated by an automatic bot, so you could safely block any questionable IP address, so as to be on the safe side. In this way, you shall also prevent the prospect of your web server getting overloaded by a lot of fake requests.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

If you have a shared hosting account with our company and you want to block one or a few IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, that is included in our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Using a very simple interface, you'll be able to prevent any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it requires to complete that is to log inside to your CP, to go to the IP Blocking section, to pick a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to type in the IP address. You will not have to do anything complex if you wish to block an entire network - you'll simply have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot will block the whole range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed within the exact same section, so you'll be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with just a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts come with a quite simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will allow you to restrict individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your sites with simplyseveral clicks and you won't have any troubles to achieve that even if that's your first website hosting account. As soon as you check out the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia CP, you will just have to choose the domain or subdomain you want from a drop-down list, then input the IP address inside a box which you'll see there and you will be all set. To limit the access for an entire network, you must leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you type 123.123. and don't enter anything within the third and fourth positions, our server shall deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.