One of the most productive approaches to restrict the access to your Internet site is to block the IP addresses of those which mustn't be able to open it. There are numerous reasons why you should do that. As an example, you may want a certain individual not to be able to see your site, or you can restrict the access for a whole country. You may also block IP addresses in case you detect that there are way too many browser requests from them, if a large number of spam comments are left on your Internet sites or if a script login page has been loaded numerous times. In all of these situations, the traffic is most likely fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you may safely block any suspicious IP address, to be on the safe side. Thus, you shall also stay away from the possibility of your server getting overloaded by a lot of fake requests.
IP Blocking in Hosting
Our IP Blocking tool is part of the innovative Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all hosting accounts. It'll permit you to block addresses with just a couple of clicks. No coding abilities are necessary, because you'll use an intuitive interface - you just have to select a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and enter the IP address that you would like to be blocked. You'll be able to see all the IP addresses you have added inside the same section and whitelisting any of them will take only a click. If you notice that your site is being flooded by various IPs, you shall be able to block a whole IP range also. This may be performed by omitting the last number of the address. For instance, if you would like to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you basically need to type in 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you host your Internet sites within a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you would like to block one or a few IP addresses sooner or later, you may take advantage of the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we have included in our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With simply a couple of mouse clicks, you will be able to block certain IPs or whole ranges, if necessary. All you'll have to do is choose any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, decide if the blocking should be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that's part of the Internet site, and then type in the IP address that you would like to block. For an IP range, you just have to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address in accordance with the size of the network that you want to block. All the addresses that you have restricted shall be listed within the exact same section and if you would like to whitelist any of them, you will be able to do it with simply a click whenever you want.