One of the most productive methods to limit the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of those which should not be able to open it. There are various good reasons to do that. As an illustration, you may want a particular person not to be able to see your site, or you could restrict the access for an entire nation. You may also block IP addresses if you notice that there are way too many web browser requests from them, if a lot 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 more than likely fake and has been generated by an automatic bot, so you can safely block any suspicious IP address, so as to be on the safe side. Thus, you'll also prevent the possibility of your hosting server getting overloaded by many fake requests.
IP Blocking in Shared Web Hosting
If you have a shared web hosting account with our company and you would like to block one or a few IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, that is incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Through a rather simple interface, you can restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it takes to do that is to log in to your Control Panel, to navigate to the IP Blocking section, to pick a specific domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You simply won't need to do anything complicated if you would like to block an entire network - you will just have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot shall block the full range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed within the exact same section, so you shall be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with a click.
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you host your websites within a semi-dedicated server account with us and you need to block one or a number of IP addresses at some point, you could benefit from the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we've provided with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With simply a few clicks, you will be able to block individual IPs or whole ranges, if needed. All you shall need to do is pick any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, choose if the blocking needs to be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that's part of the Internet site, and then type the IP address that you want to block. For an IP range, you simply have to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address with regards to the size of the network that you want to block. All of the addresses that you have restricted shall be listed in the exact same section and if you want to whitelist any of them, you will be able to do it with a mouse click at any time.