One of the most effective approaches to limit the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of the people which mustn't be able to open it. There are numerous reasons to do this. As an illustration, you may want a particular person not to be able to see your website, or you could restrict the access for a whole country. You can even block IP addresses in case you detect that there are lots of browser requests from them, if a lot of spam comments are left on your Internet sites or if a script login page has been loaded a lot of times. In each of these scenarios, the traffic is most likely fake and has been generated by an automatic bot, so you may safely block any shady IP address, so as to be on the safe side. That way, you'll also avoid the chance of your web server getting overloaded by too many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Shared Web Hosting

Our shared web hosting plans include an IP blocking tool, so in case you'd like to restrict the access to your sites, it shall be able to do so with just a few clicks. The tool is provided with the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all accounts and that is quite simple to use. When you log in and check out the IP blocking section, you will just need to choose a domain or a subdomain hosted within the account and type in the IP address which needs to be blocked. Our system will enable you to block entire networks also, so if you enter 123.123.123., for example, this will block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your websites. If you wish to whitelist an IP at some point, you may unblock it with simply a mouse click from the same section.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting CP, included with our semi-dedicated plans, will allow you to solve the matter with unwanted traffic very quickly and easily. It includes an IP blocking tool in which you can add IP addresses with several mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains which you have inside the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only have to choose the one you need and then type in the IP address that has to be blocked. If you wish to block an entire range, a C-class network for instance, you just need to type in the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That will block all 254 addresses, so you shall not need to type them by hand. Since all the IPs that you add in this section shall be listed, you may quickly unblock any of them by clicking the Delete button relevant to the given IP.