One of the most efficient ways to restrict the access to your Internet site is to block the IP addresses of the people which should not be able to open it. There are various good reasons to do this. For example, you may want a particular person not to be able to see your site, or you could limit the access for a whole country. You could also block IP addresses in case you discover that there are too many web browser requests from them, if a huge number of spam comments are left within your websites or if a script login page has been loaded many times. In any of these situations, the traffic is most likely fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you may safely block any suspicious IP address, so as to be on the safe side. That way, you shall also prevent the possibility of your hosting server getting overloaded by way too many fake requests.
IP Blocking in Shared Hosting
Our Linux shared hosting feature an IP blocking tool, so if you want to limit the access to your Internet sites, you will be able to do this with just a few clicks. The tool is provided with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all accounts and that's very easy to use. When you log in and check out the IP blocking section, you shall just need to choose a domain or a subdomain hosted in the account and type in the IP address which should be blocked. Our system allows you to block entire networks as well, so if you type in 123.123.123., for example, this shall block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your websites. In case you wish to whitelist an IP at some point, you'll be able to unblock it with just a click from the same section.
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you host your Internet sites inside a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you need to block one or several IP addresses sooner or later, you may take advantage of the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we've included in our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With just a couple of clicks, you shall be able to block particular IPs or whole ranges, if necessary. All you will need to do is pick out any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, decide if the blocking must be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder which is part of the website, and then input the IP address you want to block. For an IP range, you just have to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address depending on the size of the network that you want to block. Each of the addresses that you've restricted shall be listed within the same section and if you want to whitelist any of them, you'll be able to do it with a click anytime.