One of the most effective ways to restrict the access to your Internet site is to block the IP addresses of the individuals which must not be able to open it. There are numerous good reasons to do this. For example, you may want a specific individual not to be able to see your site, or you can restrict the access for an entire nation. You can also block IP addresses in case you detect that there are way too many Internet browser requests from them, if a large number of spam comments are left on your sites or if a script login page has been loaded numerous times. In each of these cases, the traffic is most probably fake and has been generated by an automatic bot, so you can safely block any shady IP address, in order to be on the safe side. In this way, you'll also stay away from the chance of your server getting overloaded by many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

If you have a shared hosting account with our company and you would like to block one or a number of IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, which is integrated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Through a really simple interface, you are able to prevent any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it requires to do that is to log within to your Control Panel, to visit the IP Blocking section, to choose a specific domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You shall not have to do anything complex if you would like to block an entire network - you will simply have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot shall block the entire range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed inside the same section, so you'll be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with simply a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts feature a very simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will allow you to prohibit individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your websites with justa few clicks and you shall not have any troubles to do that even if this is your first web hosting account. When you go to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you'll simply have to pick the domain or subdomain in question from a drop-down list, then input the IP address inside a box that you will see there and you will be ready. To limit the access for an entire network, you will need to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you type 123.123. and don't input anything within the third and fourth positions, our hosting server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.