One of the most efficient methods to restrict the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of those which mustn't be able to open it. There are several reasons why you should do this. For instance, you may want a specific person not to be able to see your Internet site, or you may limit the access for an entire nation. You could also block IP addresses in case you discover that there are way too many browser requests from them, if many spam comments are left on your Internet sites or if a script login page has been loaded a lot of times. In all of these cases, the traffic is more than likely fake and has been generated by an automatic bot, so you may safely block any questionable IP address, in order to be on the safe side. Thus, you'll also stay away from the possibility of your hosting server getting overloaded by way too many fake requests.
IP Blocking in Shared Hosting
Our IP Blocking tool is part of the advanced Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all shared hosting accounts. It will enable you to block addresses with simply a couple of clicks. No coding abilities are required, due to the fact that you shall use an intuitive interface - you simply need to select a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type the IP address that you would like to be blocked. You will be able to see all the IP addresses which you have added in the very same section and whitelisting any of them shall take only a click. If you notice that your website is being flooded by different IPs, you'll be able to block a whole IP range also. This could be completed by omitting the last number of the address. For instance, if you want to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you simply need to type in 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you host your Internet sites within a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you would like to block one or a few IP addresses eventually, you are able to leverage the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we've supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With only a couple of mouse clicks, you will be able to block specific IPs or whole ranges, if required. All you shall need to do is pick out any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, select if the blocking needs to be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder which is part of the website, and then enter the IP address you want to block. For an IP range, you simply have to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address in accordance with the size of the network that you want to block. Each of the addresses which you have restricted shall be listed within the same section and if you wish to whitelist any one of them, you will be able to do it with just a click at any time.