One of the most productive approaches to restrict the access to your site is to block the IP addresses of individuals that shouldn't be able to open it. There are numerous reasons why you should do this. For instance, you may want a certain person not to be able to see your Internet site, or you can limit the access for an entire state. You may also block IP addresses if you notice that there are lots of Internet browser requests from them, if a large number of spam comments are left within your sites or if a script login page has been loaded numerous times. In each of these cases, the traffic is most likely fake and has been generated by an automatic bot, so you may safely block any suspicious IP address, so as to be on the safe side. This way, you'll also stay away from the possibility of your hosting server getting overloaded by too many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Shared Web Hosting

If you have a shared web hosting account with us and you want to block one or several IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, that's integrated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. Through a pretty simple interface, you could prevent any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it takes to do this is to log in to your CP, to visit the IP Blocking section, to choose a specific domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to type in the IP address. You shall not have to do anything difficult if you'd like to block a whole network - you'll simply have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot will block the entire range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed inside the same section, so you shall be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with only a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with our semi-dedicated plans, will permit you to solve the matter with unwanted traffic very quickly and easily. It features an IP blocking tool in which you can add IP addresses with several clicks. All domains and subdomains that you have inside the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only need to select the one you need and then input the IP address that needs to 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. This will block all 254 addresses, so you shall not have to type them by hand. Because all the IPs you add in this section will be listed, you may very easily unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button related to the particular IP.