One of the most efficient ways to restrict the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of individuals that should not be able to open it. There are various reasons to do that. For instance, you may want a particular individual not to be able to see your site, or you may limit the access for a whole state. You can also block IP addresses in case you notice that there are way too many Internet browser requests from them, if a huge number of spam comments are left in your websites or if a script login page has been loaded many times. In each of these scenarios, the traffic is almost certainly 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 shall also avoid the chance of your server getting overloaded by many fake requests.
IP Blocking in Shared Hosting
If you have a shared hosting account with us and you want to block one or a number of IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, which is incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. Using a very simple interface, you can stop any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it requires to complete this is to log within to your Control Panel, to check out the IP Blocking section, to pick a specific domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You shall not need to do anything difficult if you wish to block an entire network - you will just have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot shall block the whole range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed inside the same section, so you'll be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with a mouse click.
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
Our semi-dedicated server accounts come with a rather simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that'll permit you to prohibit individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your sites with justseveral mouse clicks and you will not have any difficulties to do that even if that is your first website hosting account. As soon as you visit the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you will only need to pick the domain or subdomain in question from a drop-down list, then type the IP address within a box which you'll see there and you will be good to go. To limit the access for an entire network, you need to leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you type in 123.123. and don't type in anything within the third and fourth positions, our server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.