One of the most reliable ways to restrict the access to your site is to block the IP addresses of individuals that should not be able to open it. There are numerous good reasons to do this. As an illustration, you may want a specific person not to be able to see your website, or you could limit the access for an entire nation. 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 on your websites or if a script login page has been loaded a large number of times. In any of these cases, the traffic is almost certainly fake and has been generated by an automatic bot, so you could safely block any questionable IP address, so as to be on the safe side. Thus, you shall also stay away from the chance of your web server getting overloaded by way too many fake requests.
IP Blocking in Shared Hosting
Our shared hosting service come with an IP blocking tool, so if you would like to restrict the access to your Internet sites, you'll be able to do this with only a few clicks. The tool is included with the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all accounts and which is super easy to use. Once you log in and check out the IP blocking section, you shall just have to pick a domain or a subdomain hosted within the account and enter the IP address which needs to be blocked. Our system will allow you to block whole networks too, 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 Internet sites. If you want to whitelist an IP at some point, you may unblock it with a click from the same section.
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
Our semi-dedicated server accounts come with a rather simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that'll allow you to prohibit individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your sites with justseveral mouse clicks and you will not have any troubles to achieve that even if that's your first hosting account. As soon as you check out the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia CP, you'll only need to select the domain or subdomain you want from a drop-down list, then type in the IP address in a box that you will see there and you will be ready. To restrict the access for a whole network, you must leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you type 123.123. and do not type anything inside the third and fourth positions, our server shall deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.