One of the most reliable approaches to limit the access to your site is to block the IP addresses of individuals which shouldn't be able to open it. There are numerous reasons why you should do this. For example, you may want a specific individual not to be able to see your Internet site, or you can limit the access for an entire country. You could also block IP addresses if you notice that there are lots of Internet browser requests from them, if many spam comments are left on your websites or if a script login page has been loaded numerous times. In all of these scenarios, the traffic is most likely fake and has been created 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 stay away from the chance of your server getting overloaded by way too many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Shared Web Hosting

Our shared web hosting come with an IP blocking tool, so if you want to limit the access to your sites, you'll be able to do so with only several mouse clicks. The tool is provided with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all accounts and that's very simple to use. As soon as you log in and navigate to the IP blocking section, you'll just need to choose a domain or a subdomain hosted within the account and type the IP address that should be blocked. Our system will permit you to block entire networks also, so if you type in 123.123.123., for instance, this shall block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your websites. If you want to whitelist an IP at some point, you can unblock it with a mouse click from the same section.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts include a rather simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will permit you to restrict individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your websites with onlyseveral mouse clicks and you won't have any troubles to do that even if that is your first hosting account. When you visit the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia CP, you will just need to pick the domain or subdomain you need from a drop-down list, then enter the IP address within a box that you'll see there and you will be all set. To prohibit the access for a whole network, you'll have to leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you type 123.123. and don't input anything inside the third and fourth positions, our server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.