One of the most productive methods to restrict the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of the people which must not be able to open it. There are several reasons to do that. As an illustration, you may want a certain individual not to be able to see your Internet site, or you could restrict the access for a whole nation. You can also block IP addresses if you discover that there are way too many web browser requests from them, if a lot of spam comments are left on your websites or if a script login page has been loaded a large number of times. In any of these scenarios, the traffic is more than likely fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you could safely block any suspicious IP address, to be on the safe side. This way, you'll also prevent the chance of your hosting server getting overloaded by too many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool is part of the innovative Hepsia hosting CP, provided with all shared hosting accounts. It shall allow you to block addresses with just a couple of clicks. No coding abilities are required, as you will use an intuitive interface - you simply need to pick a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and input the IP address you want to be blocked. You shall be able to see all the IP addresses that you have added inside the same section and whitelisting each of them will take just a click. If you notice that your website is being flooded by various IPs, you shall be able to block a whole IP range too. This may be done by omitting the last number of the address. For instance, if you want to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you basically have to type in 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you want to block one or a few IP addresses sooner or later, you may use the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we've included in our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With a few mouse clicks, you'll be able to block certain IPs or whole ranges, if required. All you will have to do is pick any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, decide if the blocking should be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder which is part of the Internet site, and then enter the IP address that you'd like to block. For an IP range, you simply have to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address based on the size of the network which you want to block. Each of the addresses that you have restricted shall be listed within the same section and if you want to whitelist any one of them, you will be able to do it with simply a mouse click anytime.