One of the most efficient ways to limit the access to your site is to block the IP addresses of the people that mustn't be able to open it. There are numerous reasons why you should do this. As an example, you may want a certain person not to be able to see your Internet site, or you can restrict the access for an entire nation. You can also block IP addresses if you discover that there are too many browser requests from them, if many spam comments are left within your Internet sites or if a script login page has been loaded a lot of times. In each of these cases, the traffic is most likely fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you can safely block any questionable IP address, so as to be on the safe side. This way, you will also stay away from the chance of your web server getting overloaded by a lot of fake requests.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

Our shared hosting come with an IP blocking tool, so in case you want to limit the access to your websites, you will be able to do so with only several clicks. The tool is provided with the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all accounts and that is super easy to use. When you log in and visit the IP blocking section, you will just need to choose a domain or a subdomain hosted inside the account and input the IP address that should be blocked. Our system enables you to block entire networks as well, so if you type 123.123.123., for example, this'll block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your Internet sites. If you want to whitelist an IP at some point, you'll be able to unblock it with a mouse click from the same section.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts come with a quite simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that'll allow you to restrict individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your websites with no more thana couple of clicks and you shall not have any troubles to accomplish that even if that's your first web hosting account. When you visit the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you'll just need to choose the domain or subdomain you need from a drop-down list, then input the IP address inside a box which you'll see there and you will be good to go. To limit the access for an entire network, you have 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 server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.