One of the most effective approaches to restrict the access to your site is to block the IP addresses of the people which must not be able to open it. There are various good reasons to do this. As an example, you may want a certain individual not to be able to see your website, or you can limit the access for an entire nation. You could also block IP addresses in case you notice that there are way too many browser requests from them, if a large number of spam comments are left within your Internet sites or if a script login page has been loaded many times. In each of these cases, the traffic is more than likely 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. That way, you'll also stay away from the chance of your server getting overloaded by way too many fake requests.
IP Blocking in Website Hosting
Our website hosting offer an IP blocking tool, so in case you want to limit the access to your Internet sites, you'll be able to do this with several clicks. The tool is provided with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all accounts and that is very easy to use. As you log in and navigate to the IP blocking section, you will just have to choose a domain or a subdomain hosted in the account and type the IP address that needs to be blocked. Our system enables you to block whole networks also, so if you enter 123.123.123., for instance, this shall block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your sites. If you want to whitelist an IP at some point, you can unblock it with a click from the same section.
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia hosting CP, provided with our Linux semi-dedicated servers, will permit you to solve the issue with unwanted traffic very quickly and easily. It features an IP blocking tool where you can add IP addresses with several mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains that you have in the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only have to select the one you need and then type the IP address that has to be blocked. If you would like to block an entire range, a C-class network for instance, you just need to type the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. This shall block all 254 addresses, so you shall not need to enter them by hand. Since all the IPs which you add in this section will be listed, you may very easily unblock any of them by clicking the Delete button associated with the particular IP.