One of the most reliable ways to restrict the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of the individuals which mustn't be able to open it. There are various reasons to do that. As an example, you may want a specific individual not to be able to see your site, or you may restrict the access for a whole country. You could also block IP addresses in case you notice that there are way too many web browser requests from them, if a lot of spam comments are left within your sites or if a script login page has been loaded a large number of times. In each of these scenarios, the traffic is more than likely fake and has been generated by an automatic bot, so you can safely block any shady IP address, to be on the safe side. This way, you will also stay away from the prospect of your hosting server getting overloaded by too many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool is part of the innovative Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all shared hosting accounts. It will allow you to block addresses with just a couple of clicks. No coding abilities are required, as you'll use an intuitive interface - you just need to select a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type the IP address that you'd like to be blocked. You will be able to see all the IP addresses you have added within the very same section and whitelisting any of them shall take only a click. If you notice your site is being flooded by various IPs, you shall be able to block a whole IP range as well. This can be completed by omitting the last number of the address. For example, if you need to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you only have to enter 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your sites in a semi-dedicated server account with us and you would like to block one or a number of IP addresses eventually, you are able to take advantage of the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we've provided with our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With just several clicks, you will be able to block certain IPs or entire ranges, if required. All you'll have to do is choose any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, choose if the blocking should be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that is part of the Internet site, and then type in the IP address that you would like to block. For an IP range, you just have to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address in accordance with the size of the network you want to block. Each of the addresses that you have restricted shall be listed in the same exact section and if you would like to whitelist any of them, you'll be able to do it with only a click whenever you want.