One of the most productive approaches to limit the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of the individuals that shouldn't be able to open it. There are several good reasons to do this. As an example, you may want a specific individual not to be able to see your website, or you may restrict the access for a whole country. You can even block IP addresses if you discover that there are way too many Internet browser requests from them, if a huge number of spam comments are left within your websites or if a script login page has been loaded numerous times. In all of these scenarios, the traffic is most 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 avoid the possibility 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 us and you want to block one or a few IP addresses, you may use the IP Blocking tool, which is incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Using a rather simple interface, you can prevent any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it takes to complete that is to log within to your CP, to go to the IP Blocking section, to pick a specific domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You simply won't have to do anything difficult if you want to block an entire network - you'll just have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot will block the entire range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed within the very same section, so you'll be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with simply a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

You'll be able to block IP addresses without difficulty and stop the unwanted traffic to any website hosted inside a semi-dedicated server account with us, as we offer you a rather easy-to-use tool to do that, that's included with our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Even if you haven't dealt with this type of problems in the past, you will not have any difficulties, because our tool includes a very user-friendly interface. When you navigate to the IP blocking section of the CP, you'll find a comprehensive list of all the domains and subdomains you have added in the Hosted Domains section. What you need to do to block an IP address is select the desired domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then type the IP in the box below. The change shall take effect instantly, so you'll not get any traffic from this address in the future. Removing an IP from the blocked list is equally uncomplicated.