One of the most productive approaches to restrict the access to your site is to block the IP addresses of the people which should not be able to open it. There are several good reasons to do this. As an illustration, you may want a particular individual not to be able to see your Internet site, or you could limit the access for an entire nation. You can also block IP addresses in case you notice that there are way too many Internet browser requests from them, if a lot of spam comments are left on your sites or if a script login page has been loaded numerous times. In any of these situations, the traffic is most probably fake and has been created by an automatic bot, so you could safely block any suspicious IP address, to be on the safe side. This way, you shall also prevent the possibility of your hosting server getting overloaded by too many fake requests.
IP Blocking in Hosting
Our IP Blocking tool is included with the ground breaking Hepsia hosting Control Panel, provided with all hosting accounts. It shall enable you to block addresses with just a few mouse clicks. No coding skills are necessary, because you shall use an intuitive interface - you just have to select a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and input the IP address that you want to be blocked. You shall be able to see all the IP addresses that you have added in the very same section and whitelisting each of them will take just a mouse click. If you notice your site is being flooded by numerous IPs, you shall be able to block an entire IP range too. This may 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 only have to enter 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Our semi-dedicated server accounts feature a rather simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will permit you to prohibit individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your Internet sites with simplya few clicks and you won't have any issues to do that even if this is your first web hosting account. As soon as you check out the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia CP, you'll only need to choose the domain or subdomain you want from a drop-down list, then type the IP address inside a box that you'll see there and you will be ready. To prohibit 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 inside the third and fourth positions, our server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.