One of the most productive methods to restrict the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of those which must not be able to open it. There are numerous reasons to do this. As an illustration, you may want a certain person not to be able to see your website, or you can limit the access for a whole country. You may also block IP addresses in case you notice that there are too many browser requests from them, if a lot of spam comments are left in your websites or if a script login page has been loaded numerous times. In each of these scenarios, the traffic is almost certainly fake and has been generated by an automatic bot, so you can safely block any suspicious IP address, to be on the safe side. This way, you'll also stay away from the prospect of your hosting server getting overloaded by a lot of fake requests.

IP Blocking in Cloud Web Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool is part of the innovative Hepsia hosting Control Panel, provided with all cloud web hosting accounts. It'll enable you to block addresses with a couple of mouse clicks. No coding skills are required, because you will use an intuitive interface - you simply need to select a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and input the IP address that you'd like to be blocked. You shall be able to see all the IP addresses that you have added in the same section and whitelisting each of them shall take just a mouse click. If you notice your Internet site is being flooded by numerous IPs, you will be able to block an entire IP range also. This may be completed 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 have to enter 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, provided with our Linux semi-dedicated servers, will allow you to solve the issue with unwanted traffic very efficiently. It features an IP blocking tool in which you could add IP addresses with a few clicks. All domains and subdomains that you have inside the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you just need to pick the one you need and then enter the IP address that should be blocked. If you wish to block a whole range, a C-class network for instance, you just need to type the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. This shall block all 254 addresses, so you'll not have to type in them by hand. Since all the IPs you add in this section shall be listed, you can very easily unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button associated with the given IP.