One of the most reliable ways to restrict the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of individuals which mustn't be able to open it. There are many good reasons to do that. For example, you may want a certain individual not to be able to see your Internet site, or you can limit the access for a whole country. You can also block IP addresses if you discover that there are way too many web browser requests from them, if many spam comments are left in your sites or if a script login page has been loaded a lot of times. In all of these situations, the traffic is almost certainly fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you can safely block any suspicious IP address, so as to be on the safe side. This way, you shall also steer clear of the possibility of your web server getting overloaded by way too many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Shared Web Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool comes with the revolutionary Hepsia hosting CP, offered with all shared web hosting accounts. It will allow you to block addresses with only several clicks. No coding skills are necessary, because you'll use an intuitive interface - you just 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'll be able to see all the IP addresses that you have added inside the exact same section and whitelisting each of them will take only a click. If you notice your site is being flooded by different IPs, you will be able to block an entire IP range too. This could be performed 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 need to enter 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting CP, offered with our semi-dedicated servers, will enable you to solve the challenge with unwanted traffic very easily. It features an IP blocking tool where you may add IP addresses with only a couple of mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains you have in the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only need to pick the one you need and then enter the IP address which has to be blocked. If you wish to block an entire range, a C-class network for example, you just have to type in the first 3 octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. This will block all 254 addresses, so you'll not have to enter them by hand. As all the IPs you include in this section will be listed, you could easily unblock any of them by clicking the Delete button related to the particular IP.