One of the most reliable approaches to restrict the access to your Internet site is to block the IP addresses of those that must not be able to open it. There are numerous reasons why you should do that. As an example, you may want a specific person not to be able to see your website, or you can limit the access for a whole nation. You can also block IP addresses in case you discover that there are lots of Internet browser requests from them, if many spam comments are left in your Internet sites or if a script login page has been loaded numerous times. In each of these scenarios, the traffic is most probably fake and has been created by an automatic bot, so you can safely block any shady IP address, in order to be on the safe side. In this way, you will also stay away from the possibility 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 us and you wish to block one or several IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, that's integrated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. Through a really simple interface, you could restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it requires to do this is to log within to your CP, to check out the IP Blocking section, to pick a certain domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You will not have to do anything challenging 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 will block the whole range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed within the very same section, so you will be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with simply a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with our semi-dedicated servers, will allow you to solve the matter with unwanted traffic very efficiently. It features an IP blocking tool in which you may add IP addresses with only several clicks. All domains and subdomains which you have in the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only have to select the one you need and then type the IP address which has to be blocked. If you wish to block an entire range, a C-class network for example, you just need to enter the first 3 octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That shall block all 254 addresses, so you will not need to input them manually. Since all the IPs which you include in this section will be listed, you can very easily unblock any of them by clicking the Delete button relevant to the given IP.