One of the most reliable approaches to limit the access to your site is to block the IP addresses of those that should not be able to open it. There are numerous reasons why you should do that. As an example, you may want a certain person not to be able to see your site, or you may restrict the access for an entire state. You can even block IP addresses in case you discover 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 a lot of times. In each of these cases, the traffic is more than likely fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you could safely block any shady IP address, in order to be on the safe side. Thus, you'll also prevent the chance of your hosting server getting overloaded by way too many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Website Hosting

Our website hosting offer an IP blocking tool, so if you want to limit the access to your sites, you will be able to do so with simply several mouse clicks. The tool is part of the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all accounts and that is super easy to use. When you log in and visit the IP blocking section, you shall just have to choose a domain or a subdomain hosted in the account and type the IP address which needs to be blocked. Our system enables you to block whole networks too, so if you enter 123.123.123., for instance, this will block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your sites. If 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 Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, included with our semi-dedicated packages, will permit you to solve the issue with unwanted traffic very quickly and easily. It includes an IP blocking tool in which you can add IP addresses with a couple of clicks. All domains and subdomains that you have inside the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only need to pick the one you need and then enter the IP address that should be blocked. If you want to block a whole range, a C-class network for instance, you just need to enter the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. This will block all 254 addresses, so you shall not have to type them by hand. Since all the IPs which you include in this section will be listed, you may very easily unblock any of them by clicking the Delete button relevant to the given IP.