One of the most productive approaches to limit the access to your site is to block the IP addresses of the individuals which must not be able to open it. There are numerous reasons why you should do this. For example, you may want a certain individual not to be able to see your Internet site, or you could limit the access for a whole state. You can even block IP addresses in case you discover that there are lots of 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 numerous times. In any of these situations, 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. That way, you will also avoid the prospect of your server getting overloaded by many fake requests.
IP Blocking in Cloud Website Hosting
Our cloud website hosting offer an IP blocking tool, so if you'd like to limit the access to your websites, you will be able to do so with a few clicks. The tool is part of the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all accounts and which is super 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 inside the account and type the IP address which should be blocked. Our system enables you to block whole networks too, so if you enter 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 want to whitelist an IP at some point, you may unblock it with simply a click from the same section.
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you host your websites within a semi-dedicated server account with us and you wish to block one or several IP addresses eventually, you'll be able to benefit from the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we've included in our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With simply a few mouse clicks, you shall be able to block particular IPs or entire ranges, if necessary. All you will need to do is pick out any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, choose if the blocking needs to be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that is part of the Internet site, and then enter the IP address that you'd like to block. For an IP range, you only need to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address with regards to the size of the network that you want to block. All the addresses that you've restricted shall be listed in the exact same section and if you wish to whitelist any of them, you will be able to do it with a click anytime.