One of the most reliable approaches to restrict the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of individuals which shouldn't be able to open it. There are several reasons why you should do this. For example, you may want a particular individual not to be able to see your Internet site, or you may restrict the access for a whole state. You may also block IP addresses if you discover that there are too many web browser requests from them, if a lot of spam comments are left within your websites or if a script login page has been loaded numerous times. In any of these scenarios, the traffic is most probably 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. This way, you shall also avoid the chance of your web server getting overloaded by too many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Cloud Website Hosting

Our Linux cloud website hosting packages include an IP blocking tool, so if you'd like to restrict the access to your Internet sites, it shall be able to do so with a couple of clicks. The tool is part of the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all accounts and that is quite simple to use. As you log in and go to the IP blocking section, you'll just need to choose a domain or a subdomain hosted inside the account and type the IP address that should be blocked. Our system will permit you to block entire networks as well, so if you type 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. If 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 sites inside a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you would like to block one or several IP addresses sooner or later, you can take advantage of the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we've supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With only a few clicks, you will be able to block individual IPs or whole ranges, if required. All you will need to do is select 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 website, and then input the IP address that you want to block. For an IP range, you only have to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address with regards to the size of the network that you want to block. All the addresses that you have restricted will be listed within the exact same section and if you want to whitelist any one of them, you shall be able to do it with simply a mouse click anytime.