One of the most efficient approaches to restrict the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of individuals which should not be able to open it. There are many reasons why you should do this. For instance, you may want a particular individual not to be able to see your site, or you can restrict the access for an entire nation. You can even block IP addresses if you detect that there are too many web browser requests from them, if a huge number of 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 most probably fake and has been created by an automatic bot, so you could safely block any questionable IP address, so as to be on the safe side. That way, you will also stay away from the prospect of your hosting server getting overloaded by way too many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Cloud Web Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool is part of the revolutionary Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all cloud web hosting accounts. It'll permit you to block addresses with only a couple of mouse clicks. No coding abilities are needed, because you shall use an intuitive interface - you need to simply select a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and input the IP address you want to be blocked. You'll be able to see all the IP addresses that you have added in the very same section and whitelisting each of them will take just a click. If you notice that your site is being flooded by various IPs, you shall be able to block a whole IP range as well. This could 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 only have to input 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your sites in a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you want to block one or a few IP addresses at some point, you may leverage the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we have supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With just several mouse clicks, you shall be able to block specific IPs or entire ranges, if needed. All you will need to do is pick out any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, choose if the blocking should be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that is part of the site, and then input the IP address that you'd like to block. For an IP range, you just 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 of the addresses you have restricted shall be listed in the same section and if you would like to whitelist any one of them, you will be able to do it with just a mouse click at any time.