One of the most efficient methods to restrict the access to your Internet site is to block the IP addresses of the people which must not be able to open it. There are various reasons to do this. As an example, you may want a specific person not to be able to see your site, or you can restrict the access for a whole state. You can also block IP addresses in case you discover that there are too many browser requests from them, if a large number of spam comments are left in your sites or if a script login page has been loaded a lot of times. In all of these cases, the traffic is almost certainly fake and has been created by an automatic bot, so you could safely block any shady IP address, in order to be on the safe side. In this way, you shall also stay away from the possibility of your hosting server getting overloaded by way too many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Cloud Web Hosting

If you have a cloud web hosting account with us and you want to block one or several IP addresses, you may use the IP Blocking tool, that is integrated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Through a very simple interface, you could prevent any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it requires to do this is to log within to your Control Panel, to navigate to the IP Blocking section, to choose a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You'll not need to do anything challenging if you'd like to block a whole network - you will just have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot will block the whole range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed within the same exact section, so you will be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with simply a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with our Linux semi-dedicated hosting services, will allow you to solve the challenge with unwanted traffic very quickly and easily. It comes with an IP blocking tool in which you may add IP addresses with only a few clicks. All domains and subdomains that you have within the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you just need to select the one you need and then type the IP address that should be blocked. If you wish to block a whole range, a C-class network for instance, you simply need to enter the first 3 octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That shall block all 254 addresses, so you shall not have to type them manually. As all the IPs that you include 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.