One of the most productive methods to restrict the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of the individuals which must not be able to open it. There are several good reasons to do that. For instance, you may want a certain individual not to be able to see your site, or you could restrict the access for a whole state. You could also block IP addresses in case you discover that there are lots of Internet browser requests from them, if a lot of spam comments are left within your Internet sites or if a script login page has been loaded a large number of times. In each of these situations, the traffic is most likely fake and has been generated by an automatic bot, so you could safely block any questionable IP address, in order to be on the safe side. Thus, you will also steer clear of the possibility of your web server getting overloaded by a lot of fake requests.

IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool comes with the advanced Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all cloud hosting accounts. It'll allow you to block addresses with just a few clicks. No coding skills are needed, since you will use an intuitive interface - you need to simply choose a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type the IP address that you'd like to be blocked. You shall be able to see all the IP addresses that you have added inside the exact same section and whitelisting any of them will take just a click. If you notice that your Internet site is being flooded by numerous IPs, you will be able to block a whole IP range too. This can be done by omitting the last number of the address. For example, if you want to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you simply need to enter 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your Internet sites within a semi-dedicated server account with us and you need to block one or several IP addresses at some point, you can take advantage of the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we have provided with our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With several clicks, you will be able to block certain IPs or entire ranges, if necessary. All you'll need to do is choose any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, decide if the blocking should be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that's part of the Internet site, and then input the IP address that you want to block. For an IP range, you only have to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address depending on the size of the network that you want to block. All of the addresses which you have restricted will be listed inside the very same section and if you want to whitelist any of them, you will be able to do it with simply a mouse click anytime.