One of the most effective methods to limit the access to your Internet site is to block the IP addresses of those which must not be able to open it. There are many reasons to do that. As an illustration, you may want a particular individual not to be able to see your Internet site, or you may restrict the access for an entire country. You may also block IP addresses in case you discover that there are lots of web browser requests from them, if many spam comments are left within your sites or if a script login page has been loaded numerous times. In any of these scenarios, the traffic is most likely fake and has been created by an automatic bot, so you could safely block any suspicious IP address, in order to be on the safe side. In this way, you'll also prevent the chance of your server getting overloaded by way too many fake requests.
IP Blocking in Shared Website Hosting
Our Linux shared website hosting come with an IP blocking tool, so in case you'd like to restrict the access to your Internet sites, you'll be able to do this with only several clicks. The tool is provided with the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all accounts and which is very easy to use. As soon as you log in and check out the IP blocking section, you'll just need to pick a domain or a subdomain hosted within the account and type the IP address that needs to be blocked. Our system allows you to block whole networks as well, so if you type 123.123.123., for instance, this will block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your websites. If you would like to whitelist an IP at some point, you could unblock it with just a click from the same section.
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
Our semi-dedicated server accounts come with a quite simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that'll permit you to prohibit individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your sites with onlya couple of mouse clicks and you won't have any troubles to achieve that even if that is your first website hosting account. When you navigate to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia CP, you will just have to pick the domain or subdomain in question from a drop-down list, then type the IP address in a box that you will see there and you will be good to go. To restrict the access for a whole network, you'll have to leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you type in 123.123. and don't type anything within the third and fourth positions, our server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.