One of the most productive methods to limit the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of individuals that should not be able to open it. There are several reasons why you should do this. As an example, you may want a particular person not to be able to see your site, or you can limit the access for an entire state. You can even block IP addresses in case you detect that there are lots of Internet browser requests from them, if a large number of spam comments are left within your websites or if a script login page has been loaded numerous times. In any of these cases, the traffic is most probably fake and has been generated by an automatic bot, so you could safely block any suspicious IP address, in order to be on the safe side. This way, you shall also avoid the possibility of your server getting overloaded by way too many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool comes with the ground breaking Hepsia hosting CP, provided with all shared hosting accounts. It will enable you to block addresses with only a couple of clicks. No coding abilities are required, as you shall use an intuitive interface - you need to simply choose a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and input the IP address that you would like to be blocked. You'll be able to see all the IP addresses that you have added within the exact same section and whitelisting each of them shall take only a mouse click. If you notice your website is being flooded by numerous IPs, you will be able to block an entire IP range as well. This can be completed 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 need to type in 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, offered with our Linux semi-dedicated hosting, will permit you to solve the matter with unwanted traffic very easily and quickly. It incorporates an IP blocking tool where you may add IP addresses with just a few clicks. All domains and subdomains you have in the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only have to choose the one you need and then input the IP address that should be blocked. If you wish to block a whole range, a C-class network for example, you simply need to enter the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That will block all 254 addresses, so you will not need to type them by hand. As all the IPs that you include in this section will be listed, you could effortlessly unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button relevant to the particular IP.