One of the most reliable ways to limit the access to your Internet site is to block the IP addresses of the people that must not be able to open it. There are numerous good reasons to do this. For instance, you may want a specific person not to be able to see your site, or you may restrict the access for a whole nation. You can also block IP addresses if you detect that there are lots of browser requests from them, if a lot of spam comments are left in your websites or if a script login page has been loaded a large number of times. In each of these cases, the traffic is almost certainly fake and has been created by an automatic bot, so you can safely block any questionable IP address, so as to be on the safe side. This way, you'll also steer clear of the prospect of your server getting overloaded by way too many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Cloud Website Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool is part of the ground breaking Hepsia hosting Control Panel, provided with all cloud website hosting accounts. It will enable you to block addresses with a couple of clicks. No coding abilities are required, because you'll use an intuitive interface - you need to simply choose 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 which you have added in the same section and whitelisting each of them shall take only a click. If you notice your Internet site is being flooded by different IPs, you will be able to block a whole IP range too. This can be done by omitting the last number of the address. For example, if you want to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you only need to enter 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you need to block one or a few IP addresses at some point, you are able to use the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we've supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With just several clicks, you will be able to block particular IPs or entire ranges, if necessary. All you'll need to do is choose any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, decide if the blocking should be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that is part of the website, and then type in the IP address that you'd like to block. For an IP range, you only have to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address depending on the size of the network you want to block. All of the addresses that you've restricted shall be listed in the same section and if you wish to whitelist any of them, you shall be able to do it with simply a click whenever you want.