One of the most reliable methods to restrict the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of the individuals which must not be able to open it. There are various reasons why you should do this. As an illustration, you may want a particular person not to be able to see your site, or you may restrict the access for an entire nation. You may also block IP addresses in case you notice that there are way too many Internet browser requests from them, if a huge number of spam comments are left on your Internet sites or if a script login page has been loaded a large number of times. In any of these scenarios, the traffic is most probably fake and has been generated by an automatic bot, so you may safely block any suspicious IP address, in order to be on the safe side. Thus, you will also prevent the prospect of your hosting server getting overloaded by a lot of 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 may use the IP Blocking tool, that's integrated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Using a pretty simple interface, you'll be able to restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it requires to complete this is to log inside to your Control Panel, to navigate to the IP Blocking section, to choose a specific domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You won't have to do anything complicated 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 whole range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed inside the very same section, so you will be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with simply a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with our semi-dedicated hosting, will permit you to solve the challenge with unwanted traffic very easily. It comes with an IP blocking tool where you may add IP addresses with several clicks. All domains and subdomains which you have within the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you just need to select the one you need and then type in the IP address which has to be blocked. If you wish to block a whole range, a C-class network for instance, you just have to type in the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That will block all 254 addresses, so you will not have to input them by hand. Because all the IPs you include in this section shall be listed, you can very easily unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button relevant to the given IP.