One of the most reliable approaches to restrict the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of those that should not be able to open it. There are various reasons to do this. For example, you may want a specific person not to be able to see your Internet site, or you may restrict the access for a whole nation. You can even block IP addresses if you detect that there are way too many web browser requests from them, if many spam comments are left on your Internet sites or if a script login page has been loaded numerous times. In any of these situations, the traffic is most likely fake and has been generated by an automatic bot, so you may safely block any shady IP address, so as to be on the safe side. In this way, you will also avoid the possibility of your web server getting overloaded by many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Shared Web Hosting

If you have a shared web hosting account with our company and you would like to block one or a few IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, that's incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. By using a very simple interface, you can stop any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it requires to complete that is to log within to your Control Panel, to check out the IP Blocking section, to choose a certain domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You simply won't have to do anything complex if you would like to block an entire network - you will just need to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot shall block the full range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed within the exact same section, so you will be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

You will be able to block IP addresses effortlessly and stop the unwanted traffic to any website hosted inside a semi-dedicated server account with our company, considering the fact that we offer you a really easy-to-use tool to do that, which is offered with our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Even if you haven't tackled such problems in the past, you will not have any difficulties, considering that our tool has a very user-friendly interface. When you go to the IP blocking section of the CP, you will find a full list of all the domains and subdomains that you've added within the Hosted Domains section. All you need to do to block an IP address is select the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then enter the IP inside the box below. The change shall take effect straightaway, so you'll not get any traffic from this address in the future. Taking away an IP from the blocked list is just as easy.