IP Blocking

Find out about IP blocking, precisely what it signifies and how and when it’s best to use it.

One of the most efficient approaches to restrict the access to your site is to block the IP addresses of individuals which mustn't be able to open it. There are many good reasons to do that. As an example, you may want a particular person not to be able to see your Internet site, or you may limit the access for a whole nation. You can even block IP addresses in case you detect that there are lots of web 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 a lot of times. In all of these situations, the traffic is more than likely fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you may safely block any suspicious IP address, in order to be on the safe side. In this way, you'll also prevent the possibility of your hosting server getting overloaded by a lot of fake requests.

IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting

Our cloud packages offer an IP blocking tool, so in case you'd like to restrict the access to your sites, it shall be able to do this with a couple of clicks. The tool is provided with the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all accounts and that's quite simple to use. When you log in and go to the IP blocking section, you shall just have to choose a domain or a subdomain hosted inside the account and input the IP address which should be blocked. Our system allows you to block entire networks also, so if you input 123.123.123., for example, this shall block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your Internet sites. In case you wish to whitelist an IP at some point, you can unblock it with just a click from the same section.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your Internet sites inside a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you would like to block one or a number of IP addresses at some point, you are able to take advantage of the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we have supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With several mouse clicks, you will be able to block specific IPs or entire ranges, if required. All you'll have to do is select any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, select if the blocking must be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder which is part of the site, and then input 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 in accordance with the size of the network which you want to block. All of the addresses that you have restricted will be listed inside the exact same section and if you wish to whitelist any of them, you shall be able to do it with a mouse click at any time.