One of the most efficient ways to restrict the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of the people which shouldn't be able to open it. There are several reasons to do that. As an example, you may want a certain individual not to be able to see your website, or you may restrict the access for an entire nation. You can even block IP addresses in case you detect that there are way too many 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 a lot of times. In all of these situations, the traffic is more than likely fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you may safely block any questionable IP address, to be on the safe side. This way, you shall also stay away from the possibility of your web server getting overloaded by too many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Website Hosting

If you have a website hosting account with our company and you would like to block one or several IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, which is incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. Using a very simple interface, you are able to restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have never 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 type in the IP address. You won't need to do anything complex if you want to block a whole network - you'll 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 shall be listed inside the exact same section, so you shall be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your Internet sites inside a semi-dedicated server account with us and you wish to block one or a number of IP addresses at some point, you could use the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we've provided with our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With just a couple of clicks, you will be able to block particular IPs or entire ranges, if necessary. All you shall have to do is pick out any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, decide if the blocking should be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder which is part of the Internet site, and then type the IP address that you want to block. For an IP range, you only need to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address depending on the size of the network which you want to block. All the addresses you have restricted shall be listed within the same exact section and if you wish to whitelist any of them, you'll be able to do it with a mouse click anytime.