One of the most effective ways to limit the access to your Internet site is to block the IP addresses of the people which should not be able to open it. There are various good reasons to do that. For instance, you may want a particular individual not to be able to see your site, or you can limit the access for an entire country. You can even block IP addresses if you notice that there are too many Internet browser requests from them, if a lot of spam comments are left within your websites or if a script login page has been loaded a lot of times. In any of these cases, the traffic is most probably fake and has been created by an automatic bot, so you could safely block any shady IP address, so as to be on the safe side. Thus, you shall also steer clear of the possibility of your server getting overloaded by many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Website Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool is part of the advanced Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all website hosting accounts. It will enable you to block addresses with a few clicks. No coding abilities are necessary, as you shall use an intuitive interface - you just need to select a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and enter the IP address that you would like to be blocked. You'll be able to see all the IP addresses that you've added within the same section and whitelisting any of them will take only a click. If you notice that your website is being flooded by various IPs, you shall be able to block an entire IP range as well. This could be done by omitting the last number of the address. For instance, if you need to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you basically need to type in 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting CP, offered with our semi-dedicated hosting plans, will permit you to solve the challenge with unwanted traffic very easily. It comes with an IP blocking tool where you could add IP addresses with just several mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains that you have within the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only have to pick the one you need and then input the IP address which should be blocked. If you would like to block an entire range, a C-class network for instance, you just need to enter the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. This will block all 254 addresses, so you will not need to type them manually. Considering that all the IPs you add in this section will be listed, you can very easily unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button relevant to the given IP.