One of the most productive methods to restrict the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of the individuals which should not be able to open it. There are numerous reasons to do that. For example, you may want a specific person not to be able to see your site, or you could limit the access for an entire country. You can even block IP addresses in case you discover that there are too many web browser requests from them, if a huge number of spam comments are left in your websites or if a script login page has been loaded a large number of times. In each of these scenarios, the traffic is almost certainly fake and has been created by an automatic bot, so you can safely block any shady IP address, to be on the safe side. In this way, you shall also stay away from the prospect of your hosting server getting overloaded by way too many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Web Hosting

If you have a web hosting account with our company and you want to block one or a few IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, which is included in our in-house built Hepsia CP. Through a really simple interface, you can stop any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it takes to perform this is to log in to your Control Panel, to go to the IP Blocking section, to choose a specific domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to type in the IP address. You will not need to do anything complex if you'd like to block a whole network - you'll simply have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot will block the whole range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed in the exact same section, so you will be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with just a click.