One of the most reliable approaches to limit the access to your site is to block the IP addresses of those that mustn't be able to open it. There are several good reasons to do that. For example, you may want a certain person not to be able to see your website, or you may restrict the access for an entire country. You could also block IP addresses if you notice that there are too many web browser requests from them, if a large number of spam comments are left on your Internet sites or if a script login page has been loaded a large number of times. In any of these scenarios, the traffic is almost certainly fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you may safely block any suspicious IP address, in order to be on the safe side. That way, you shall also avoid the prospect of your web server getting overloaded by too many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Shared Website Hosting

Our shared website hosting services provide an IP blocking tool, so in case you would like to restrict the access to your sites, you will be able to do this with simply a few mouse clicks. The tool is part of the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all accounts and which is very easy to use. As you log in and visit the IP blocking section, you shall just need to select a domain or a subdomain hosted in the account and type the IP address that should be blocked. Our system will enable you to block entire networks too, so if you enter 123.123.123., for example, this will block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your websites. In case you want 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

If you host your websites in a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you wish to block one or numerous IP addresses at some point, you can benefit from the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we've supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With simply a few mouse clicks, you shall be able to block particular IPs or whole ranges, if needed. All you'll need to do is select any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, choose if the blocking should be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that is part of the website, and then type in the IP address that you want to block. For an IP range, you just have to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address with regards to the size of the network that you want to block. All of the addresses which you have restricted shall be listed inside the same section and if you want to whitelist any one of them, you'll be able to do it with a click whenever you want.