One of the most reliable ways to limit the access to your site is to block the IP addresses of those that should not be able to open it. There are many reasons to do that. As an illustration, you may want a certain individual not to be able to see your Internet site, or you may limit the access for a whole state. You could also block IP addresses if you detect that there are way too many browser requests from them, if a huge number of spam comments are left within your sites or if a script login page has been loaded many times. In any of these cases, the traffic is more than likely fake and has been created by an automatic bot, so you can safely block any questionable IP address, so as to be on the safe side. That way, you shall also avoid the prospect of your web server getting overloaded by way too 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 few IP addresses, you may use the IP Blocking tool, that's incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Through a really simple interface, you could restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it requires to complete that is to log inside to your Control Panel, to go to the IP Blocking section, to pick a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You will not need to do anything complicated if you want to block a whole network - you will just need to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot will block the full range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed in the very same section, so you shall be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with just a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with our semi-dedicated hosting, will permit you to solve the issue with unwanted traffic very efficiently. It includes an IP blocking tool in which you may add IP addresses with only a couple of mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains you have in the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you just need to select the one you need and then type the IP address that should be blocked. If you would like to block a whole range, a C-class network for instance, you just need to input the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That shall block all 254 addresses, so you'll not have to type in them manually. As all the IPs which you add in this section will be listed, you may effortlessly unblock any of them by clicking the Delete button relevant to the given IP.