One of the most productive ways to limit the access to your site is to block the IP addresses of individuals which must not be able to open it. There are several reasons why you should do this. For instance, you may want a specific individual not to be able to see your Internet site, or you can restrict the access for a whole nation. You may also block IP addresses if you discover that there are lots of Internet browser requests from them, if a huge number of spam comments are left within your websites or if a script login page has been loaded numerous times. In any of these scenarios, the traffic is more than likely fake and has been generated by an automatic bot, so you could safely block any shady IP address, to be on the safe side. In this way, you shall also prevent the possibility of your server getting overloaded by way too many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Shared Website Hosting

Our Linux shared website hosting packages come with an IP blocking tool, so in case you'd like to limit the access to your websites, it shall be able to do this with a few mouse clicks. The tool is provided with the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all accounts and that's a breeze to use. As soon as you log in and navigate to the IP blocking section, you'll just need to choose a domain or a subdomain hosted inside the account and type in the IP address which should be blocked. Our system allows you to block entire networks too, so if you type 123.123.123., for example, this shall block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your sites. In case you would like to whitelist an IP at some point, you may unblock it with simply a mouse click from the same section.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, included with our Linux semi-dedicated hosting packages, will enable you to solve the issue with unwanted traffic very easily and quickly. It includes an IP blocking tool in which you may add IP addresses with only a couple of mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains which you have inside the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you simply have to pick the one you need and then enter the IP address which has to be blocked. If you want to block a whole range, a C-class network for example, you simply need to enter the first 3 octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. This shall block all 254 addresses, so you will not need to type them by hand. Since all the IPs you include in this section shall be listed, you can very easily unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button relevant to the given IP.