One of the most effective methods to limit the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of those which mustn't be able to open it. There are various reasons why you should do this. As an example, you may want a specific person not to be able to see your website, or you may restrict the access for a whole nation. You can even block IP addresses in case you discover that there are way too many web browser requests from them, if many spam comments are left in your websites or if a script login page has been loaded many times. In any of these cases, the traffic is more than likely fake and has been created by an automatic bot, so you can safely block any suspicious IP address, to be on the safe side. In this way, you shall also prevent the prospect of your hosting server getting overloaded by way too many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Web Hosting

Our web hosting feature an IP blocking tool, so if you would like to limit the access to your websites, you'll be able to do so with only a few mouse clicks. The tool is provided with the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all accounts and that's super easy to use. As soon as you log in and visit the IP blocking section, you will just need to select a domain or a subdomain hosted in the account and type in the IP address that should be blocked. Our system will enable you to block entire networks too, so if you type in 123.123.123., for instance, this shall block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your Internet sites. If you wish to whitelist an IP at some point, you could unblock it with just a click from the same section.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your sites within a semi-dedicated server account with us and you wish to block one or numerous IP addresses eventually, you could take advantage of the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we've included in our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With only a few clicks, you shall be able to block specific IPs or entire ranges, if required. All you'll have to do is pick out any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, choose if the blocking should be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that is part of the Internet site, and then type in the IP address you want to block. For an IP range, you just need to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address with regards to the size of the network that you want to block. All the addresses you have restricted will be listed inside the exact same section and if you would like to whitelist any one of them, you will be able to do it with a click whenever you want.