One of the most productive methods to restrict the access to your site is to block the IP addresses of the people which should not be able to open it. There are various reasons why you should do this. As an example, you may want a particular individual not to be able to see your website, or you could restrict the access for an entire nation. You can also block IP addresses in case you detect that there are way too many web browser requests from them, if a lot of spam comments are left in your websites or if a script login page has been loaded many times. In all of these situations, the traffic is almost certainly fake and has been generated by an automatic bot, so you can safely block any suspicious IP address, so as to be on the safe side. Thus, you shall also stay away from the possibility of your web server getting overloaded by too many fake requests.
IP Blocking in Shared Hosting
Our IP Blocking tool comes with the innovative Hepsia hosting CP, offered with all shared hosting accounts. It shall permit you to block addresses with just a few mouse clicks. No coding skills are necessary, because you shall use an intuitive interface - you simply need to pick a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and input the IP address that you would like to be blocked. You will be able to see all the IP addresses which you have added in the exact same section and whitelisting each of them will take only a mouse click. If you notice your website is being flooded by various IPs, you'll be able to block a whole IP range also. This may 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 just have to type in 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
Our semi-dedicated server accounts come with a really simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will enable you to prohibit individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your sites with no more thanseveral clicks and you shall not have any problems to accomplish that even if that is your first website hosting account. When you visit the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you will only need to select the domain or subdomain you need from a drop-down list, then type in the IP address in a box that you'll see there and you will be all set. To limit the access for an entire network, you must leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you type in 123.123. and don't enter anything in the third and fourth positions, our web server shall deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.