One of the most effective ways to restrict the access to your Internet site is to block the IP addresses of the people which mustn't be able to open it. There are several reasons to do that. For instance, you may want a particular individual not to be able to see your site, or you may limit the access for an entire nation. You can even block IP addresses if you detect that there are lots of web browser requests from them, if a large number of spam comments are left on your websites or if a script login page has been loaded numerous times. In all of these scenarios, the traffic is most likely fake and has been created by an automatic bot, so you may safely block any shady IP address, so as to be on the safe side. This way, you'll also prevent the prospect of your server getting overloaded by 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, which is included in our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Using a rather simple interface, you can stop any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it takes to perform that is to log inside to your Control Panel, to navigate to 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'll not have to do anything complex if you wish to block an entire network - you will just need to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot will block the full range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed inside the exact same section, so you shall be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with simply a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

You'll be able to block IP addresses easily and stop the undesirable traffic to any Internet site hosted in a semi-dedicated server account with us, since we offer you a rather easy-to-use tool to do that, that's provided with our Hepsia hosting CP. Even if you have never dealt with this type of issues in the past, you won't have any difficulties, considering that our tool includes a very user-friendly interface. As soon as you go to the IP blocking section of the CP, you'll find a complete list of all the domains and subdomains that you've added inside the Hosted Domains section. All you need to do to block an IP address is select the desired domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and type the IP within the box below. The change shall take effect right away, so you'll not get any traffic from this address in the future. Taking away an IP from the blocked list is equally quick.