One of the most reliable ways to limit the access to your Internet site is to block the IP addresses of the people which shouldn't be able to open it. There are numerous reasons why you should do that. For example, you may want a specific person not to be able to see your Internet site, or you could limit the access for a whole nation. You could also block IP addresses if you notice that there are way too many browser requests from them, if many spam comments are left on your sites or if a script login page has been loaded many times. In any of these cases, the traffic is most likely fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you can safely block any shady IP address, in order to be on the safe side. In this way, you will also steer clear of the possibility of your web server getting overloaded by many fake requests.
IP Blocking in Hosting
Our hosting provide an IP blocking tool, so if you'd like to restrict the access to your sites, it shall be able to do this with only a couple of mouse clicks. The tool is provided with the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all accounts and that is very simple to use. When you log in and go to the IP blocking section, you shall just need to choose a domain or a subdomain hosted inside the account and input the IP address that needs to be blocked. Our system will enable you to block entire networks too, so if you input 123.123.123., for instance, this'll block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your websites. If you want to whitelist an IP at some point, you'll be able to unblock it with simply a mouse click from the same section.
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
Our semi-dedicated server accounts come with a very simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that'll enable you to prohibit individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your sites with no more thana few mouse clicks and you shall not have any troubles to achieve that even if that is your first web hosting account. Once you go to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you will just have to choose the domain or subdomain you want from a drop-down list, then type the IP address within a box that you will see there and you will be good to go. To prohibit the access for a whole network, you'll have to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you type in 123.123. and don't type in anything inside the third and fourth positions, our hosting server shall deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.