One of the most effective methods to limit the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of the individuals which mustn't be able to open it. There are various reasons to do that. For instance, you may want a particular person not to be able to see your Internet site, or you can restrict the access for a whole country. You can also block IP addresses in case you discover that there are too many browser requests from them, if a large number of spam comments are left on your sites or if a script login page has been loaded numerous times. In each of these situations, the traffic is more than likely fake and has been generated by an automatic bot, so you may safely block any shady IP address, in order to be on the safe side. In this way, you will also prevent the chance of your server getting overloaded by way too many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Cloud Web Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool is included with the innovative Hepsia hosting CP, offered with all cloud web hosting accounts. It shall allow you to block addresses with a few clicks. No coding skills are required, because you'll use an intuitive interface - you just need to select a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type in the IP address you want to be blocked. You'll be able to see all the IP addresses which you have added within the exact same section and whitelisting each of them will take just a mouse click. If you notice your site is being flooded by different IPs, you'll be able to block a whole IP range too. This may be done by omitting the last number of the address. For example, if you need to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you simply need to input 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, offered with our semi-dedicated servers, will allow you to solve the problem with unwanted traffic very easily and quickly. It incorporates an IP blocking tool where you may add IP addresses with only a couple of mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains you have inside the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only have to select the one you need and then input 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 three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. This shall block all 254 addresses, so you'll not need to enter them manually. Considering that all the IPs that you include in this section shall be listed, you could quickly unblock any of them by clicking the Delete button associated with the given IP.