One of the most efficient methods 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 various reasons to do this. For example, you may want a certain individual not to be able to see your site, or you may restrict the access for a whole country. You may also block IP addresses if you discover that there are way too many browser requests from them, if a huge number of spam comments are left on your sites or if a script login page has been loaded many times. In each of these situations, the traffic is more than likely fake and has been created by an automatic bot, so you can safely block any shady IP address, so as to be on the safe side. Thus, you shall also steer clear of the possibility of your hosting server getting overloaded by way too many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Shared Web Hosting

Our Linux shared web hosting packages feature an IP blocking tool, so if you'd like to restrict the access to your websites, it shall be able to do this with simply a couple of mouse clicks. The tool is part of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all accounts and that is very simple to use. When you log in and visit the IP blocking section, you shall just need to pick a domain or a subdomain hosted in the account and enter the IP address that should be blocked. Our system allows you to block entire networks also, so if you input 123.123.123., for instance, this shall block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your Internet sites. If you want to whitelist an IP at some point, you may unblock it with a click from the same section.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, offered with our semi-dedicated hosting, will permit you to solve the challenge with unwanted traffic very easily and quickly. It incorporates an IP blocking tool where you may add IP addresses with several mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains that you have within the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you simply have to pick the one you need and then type the IP address that has to be blocked. If you want to block a whole range, a C-class network for example, you just have to input the first 3 octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. This shall block all 254 addresses, so you'll not need to type in them by hand. As all the IPs that you add in this section will be listed, you may effortlessly unblock any of them by clicking the Delete button relevant to the particular IP.