One of the most efficient ways to restrict the access to your site is to block the IP addresses of those which shouldn't be able to open it. There are several good reasons to do that. For instance, you may want a particular person not to be able to see your website, or you can restrict the access for a whole nation. You could also block IP addresses if you notice that there are too many Internet browser requests from them, if a lot of spam comments are left in your Internet sites 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 suspicious IP address, to be on the safe side. In this way, you will also stay away from the chance of your server getting overloaded by too many 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 number of IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, which is incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Using a pretty simple interface, you could restrict 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 in to your Control Panel, to navigate to the IP Blocking section, to pick a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You simply won't need to do anything complex if you wish to block a whole 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 whole range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed in the exact same section, so you will be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, offered with our Linux semi-dedicated hosting, will enable you to solve the issue with unwanted traffic very easily. It incorporates an IP blocking tool where you may add IP addresses with just a few clicks. All domains and subdomains which you have inside the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only have to select the one you need and then input the IP address which should be blocked. If you would like to block a whole range, a C-class network for instance, you just have to type the first 3 octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That shall block all 254 addresses, so you will not have to type in them manually. Because all the IPs which you include in this section shall be listed, you could effortlessly unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button related to the given IP.