One of the most reliable approaches to limit the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of the individuals that mustn't be able to open it. There are several good reasons to do that. For instance, you may want a certain person not to be able to see your website, or you could limit the access for an entire country. You can also block IP addresses in case you notice that there are way too many browser requests from them, if a lot of spam comments are left on your websites or if a script login page has been loaded a large number of times. In any of these situations, the traffic is almost certainly fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you may safely block any suspicious IP address, so as to be on the safe side. Thus, you will also avoid the possibility of your hosting server getting overloaded by too many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting account with our company and you wish to block one or several IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, that is included in our in-house built Hepsia CP. Using a really simple interface, you are able to stop any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it takes to complete this is to log in to your CP, to check out the IP Blocking section, to pick a certain domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to type in the IP address. You will not have to do anything difficult if you wish to block a whole network - you'll just have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot shall block the whole range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed inside the same section, so you will be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with just a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts include a quite simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will permit you to restrict individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your sites with simplya few mouse clicks and you will not have any issues to accomplish that even if that's your first hosting account. Once you navigate to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia CP, you will just need to choose the domain or subdomain you need from a drop-down list, then type in the IP address in a box which you'll see there and you will be all set. To limit the access for a whole network, you need to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you enter 123.123. and don't enter anything in the third and fourth positions, our hosting server shall deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.