One of the most efficient methods to limit the access to your Internet site is to block the IP addresses of the individuals that must not be able to open it. There are many good reasons to do that. As an illustration, you may want a specific individual not to be able to see your website, or you may restrict the access for a whole nation. You can even block IP addresses if you notice that there are lots of Internet browser requests from them, if many spam comments are left on your websites or if a script login page has been loaded many times. In all of these cases, the traffic is almost certainly fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you may safely block any shady IP address, so as to be on the safe side. This way, you'll also prevent the prospect of your server getting overloaded by a lot of fake requests.

IP Blocking in Website Hosting

If you have a website 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 CP. By using a very simple interface, you could stop any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it requires to perform this is to log inside to your CP, to navigate to the IP Blocking section, to select a certain domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You will not have to do anything difficult if you want to block a whole network - you will simply have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot shall 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 shall be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting CP, included with our Linux semi-dedicated plans, will permit you to solve the matter with unwanted traffic very quickly and easily. It incorporates an IP blocking tool where you could add IP addresses with a few mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains you have within the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only need to pick the one you need and then enter the IP address which has to be blocked. If you wish to block an entire range, a C-class network for instance, you just have to input the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. This shall block all 254 addresses, so you'll not need to type them by hand. As all the IPs that you include in this section will be listed, you may very easily unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button related to the given IP.