One of the most productive approaches to limit the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of the individuals that mustn't be able to open it. There are numerous good reasons to do this. As an illustration, you may want a specific individual not to be able to see your Internet site, or you could restrict the access for an entire country. You can also block IP addresses in case you detect that there are way too many web browser requests from them, if many spam comments are left in your websites or if a script login page has been loaded numerous times. In any of these cases, the traffic is most likely fake and has been created by an automatic bot, so you may safely block any questionable IP address, so as to be on the safe side. Thus, you will also prevent the chance of your server getting overloaded by many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Web Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool comes with the ground breaking Hepsia hosting CP, offered with all web hosting accounts. It'll allow you to block addresses with a couple of mouse clicks. No coding abilities are required, because you will use an intuitive interface - you just need to 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 within the same section and whitelisting any of them will take only a click. If you notice your Internet site is being flooded by different IPs, you shall be able to block an entire IP range as well. This can 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 basically have to enter 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your websites inside a semi-dedicated server account with us and you want to block one or numerous IP addresses sooner or later, you may leverage the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we've provided with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With a few mouse clicks, you'll be able to block individual IPs or entire ranges, if necessary. All you'll have to do is select any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, choose if the blocking must be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that's part of the Internet site, and then enter the IP address you want to block. For an IP range, you just have to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address based on the size of the network you want to block. Each of the addresses you have restricted shall be listed within the very same section and if you would like to whitelist any one of them, you'll be able to do it with a click at any time.