One of the most efficient methods to restrict the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of the individuals which shouldn't be able to open it. There are many reasons why you should do this. For example, you may want a certain person not to be able to see your Internet site, or you could restrict the access for an entire country. You could also block IP addresses if you detect that there are lots of web browser requests from them, if many spam comments are left on your sites or if a script login page has been loaded numerous times. In any of these situations, the traffic is almost certainly fake and has been created by an automatic bot, so you may safely block any shady IP address, to be on the safe side. Thus, you will also stay away from the prospect of your web server getting overloaded by way too many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Shared Website Hosting

If you have a shared website hosting account with us and you want to block one or a number of IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, that is included in 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 never had a web hosting account before. All it takes to complete that is to log within to your Control Panel, to check out the IP Blocking section, to select a certain domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You will not need to do anything challenging if you'd like to block an entire 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 within the exact same section, so you shall be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with only a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You will be able to block IP addresses effortlessly and stop the unwanted traffic to any site hosted inside a semi-dedicated server account with us, because we offer a rather easy-to-use tool to do that, that is provided with our Hepsia hosting CP. Even if you have never tackled this type of issues in the past, you won't have any difficulties, as our tool provides a very user-friendly interface. Once you go to the IP blocking section of the Control Panel, you shall find a comprehensive list of all the domains and subdomains you have added inside the Hosted Domains section. What you need to do to block an IP address is pick the desired domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then input the IP within the box below. The change shall take effect immediately, so you will not get any traffic from this address in the future. Removing an IP from the blocked list is just as uncomplicated.