One of the most productive approaches to limit the access to your site is to block the IP addresses of those that shouldn't be able to open it. There are numerous reasons why you should do that. As an illustration, you may want a certain person not to be able to see your website, or you may limit the access for a whole state. You can even block IP addresses if you notice that there are too many web browser requests from them, if many spam comments are left in your Internet sites or if a script login page has been loaded numerous times. In all of these cases, the traffic is almost certainly fake and has been generated by an automatic bot, so you could safely block any suspicious IP address, to be on the safe side. That way, you shall also prevent the chance of your hosting server getting overloaded by a lot of fake requests.
IP Blocking in Hosting
Our Linux hosting plans include an IP blocking tool, so in case you'd like to limit the access to your Internet sites, you will be able to do this with just a few clicks. The tool is provided with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all accounts and which is very easy to use. When you log in and navigate to the IP blocking section, you shall just need to select a domain or a subdomain hosted within the account and type in the IP address that should be blocked. Our system will enable you to block whole networks too, so if you input 123.123.123., for example, this will block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your websites. In case you would like to whitelist an IP at some point, you'll be able to unblock it with a mouse click from the same section.
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you host your sites within a semi-dedicated server account with us and you need to block one or numerous IP addresses sooner or later, you could leverage the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we have provided with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With just a few clicks, you'll be able to block particular IPs or entire ranges, if needed. All you'll have to do is select any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, choose if the blocking must be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that is part of the site, and then type in the IP address that you would like to block. For an IP range, you just need to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address depending on the size of the network that you want to block. Each of the addresses which you have restricted will 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 mouse click whenever you want.