One of the most reliable approaches to restrict the access to your site is to block the IP addresses of the people which shouldn't be able to open it. There are various reasons to do this. For example, you may want a particular person not to be able to see your Internet site, or you may restrict the access for an entire country. You may also block IP addresses if you detect that there are way too many web browser requests from them, if a large number of spam comments are left in your Internet sites or if a script login page has been loaded a large number of times. In all of these cases, the traffic is almost certainly fake and has been generated by an automatic bot, so you can safely block any suspicious IP address, in order to be on the safe side. Thus, you will also avoid the possibility of your server getting overloaded by many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool is part of the innovative Hepsia hosting Control Panel, offered with all cloud hosting accounts. It will enable you to block addresses with simply a couple of mouse clicks. No coding skills are necessary, since you will use an intuitive interface - you just have to choose a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type the IP address that you want to be blocked. You'll be able to see all the IP addresses that you have added inside the exact same section and whitelisting each of them shall take just a mouse click. If you notice that your website is being flooded by various IPs, you shall be able to block a whole IP range also. This may be done by omitting the last number of the address. For instance, if you would like to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you just need to input 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts feature a really simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that'll enable you to prohibit individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your websites with simplya couple of clicks and you shall not have any issues to do that even if that's your first website hosting account. When you go to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you will simply have to choose the domain or subdomain you need from a drop-down list, then type the IP address inside a box that you'll see there and you will be all set. To restrict the access for a whole network, you'll have to leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you input 123.123. and don't type anything inside the third and fourth positions, our web server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.