One of the most efficient ways to limit the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of individuals that must not be able to open it. There are numerous reasons to do that. For instance, you may want a certain individual not to be able to see your site, or you may limit the access for a whole state. You can even block IP addresses if you discover that there are way too many Internet browser requests from them, if many spam comments are left on your sites or if a script login page has been loaded a large number of times. In all of these cases, the traffic is most likely fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you may safely block any questionable IP address, so as to be on the safe side. Thus, you will also stay away from the possibility of your server getting overloaded by a lot of fake requests.
IP Blocking in Web Hosting
If you have a web hosting account with our company and you want to block one or several IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, that's included in our in-house built Hepsia CP. By using a pretty simple interface, you are able to stop any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it requires to perform this is to log within to your CP, to navigate to the IP Blocking section, to choose a specific domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You will not need to do anything challenging if you want 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 shall block the whole range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed in the exact same section, so you shall be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with only a click.
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
Our semi-dedicated server accounts include a quite simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will permit you to restrict individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your Internet sites with simplya couple of clicks and you shall not have any difficulties to achieve that even if that's your first website hosting account. As soon as you check out the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia CP, you'll just have to select the domain or subdomain in question from a drop-down list, then input the IP address inside a box which you'll see there and you will be all set. To restrict the access for an entire network, you have to leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you type 123.123. and do not input anything inside the third and fourth positions, our hosting server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.