One of the most efficient methods to restrict the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of the individuals that must not be able to open it. There are numerous good reasons to do that. As an illustration, you may want a specific person not to be able to see your website, or you can restrict the access for an entire country. You can also block IP addresses if you detect that there are way too many Internet browser requests from them, if a lot of spam comments are left within your websites or if a script login page has been loaded numerous times. In any of these situations, the traffic is almost certainly fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you may safely block any questionable IP address, so as to be on the safe side. That way, you shall also prevent the possibility of your server getting overloaded by many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Cloud Web Hosting

If you have a cloud web hosting account with our company and you want to block one or several IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, that is included in our in-house built Hepsia CP. Through a pretty 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 perform this is to log inside to your Control Panel, to visit the IP Blocking section, to pick a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You shall not have to do anything challenging if you wish to block a whole 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 will be listed within the exact same section, so you will be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your websites in a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you wish to block one or several IP addresses eventually, you'll be able to leverage the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we've supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With just several clicks, you'll be able to block individual IPs or whole ranges, if required. All you'll need to do is select any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, decide if the blocking needs to 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'd like 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 which you want to block. All the addresses you have restricted shall be listed inside the very same section and if you want to whitelist any one of them, you'll be able to do it with just a click whenever you want.