One of the most efficient ways to limit the access to your site is to block the IP addresses of individuals which should not be able to open it. There are many good reasons to do that. As an illustration, you may want a particular individual not to be able to see your website, or you may limit the access for an entire state. You can also block IP addresses if you detect that there are way 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 all of these scenarios, the traffic is more than likely fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you can safely block any suspicious IP address, in order to be on the safe side. This way, you'll also avoid the chance of your hosting server getting overloaded by many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool comes with the advanced Hepsia hosting CP, provided with all hosting accounts. It will enable you to block addresses with a couple of mouse clicks. No coding skills are needed, because you'll use an intuitive interface - you need to simply pick a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and enter the IP address that you want to be blocked. You will be able to see all the IP addresses which you have added in the very same section and whitelisting any of them shall take simply a mouse click. If you notice that your site is being flooded by various IPs, you will be able to block a whole IP range also. This may 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 have to type in 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, provided with our Linux semi-dedicated hosting, will allow you to solve the matter with unwanted traffic very easily. It incorporates an IP blocking tool in which you can add IP addresses with only a couple of clicks. All domains and subdomains which 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 input the IP address which needs to be blocked. If you wish to block an entire range, a C-class network for example, you just need to type in the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That will block all 254 addresses, so you'll not need to type them by hand. Because all the IPs that you add in this section will be listed, you may quickly unblock any of them by clicking the Delete button associated with the particular IP.