One of the most productive ways to restrict the access to your Internet site is to block the IP addresses of those which should not be able to open it. There are various good reasons to do that. For instance, 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 discover that there are lots of browser requests from them, if many spam comments are left in your sites or if a script login page has been loaded many times. In any of these situations, 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 will also prevent the prospect of your web server getting overloaded by a lot of 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 several IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, which is integrated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. By using a pretty simple interface, you'll be able to 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 navigate to the IP Blocking section, to pick a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to type in the IP address. You shall not need to do anything difficult if you'd like to block an entire network - you will just need 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 shall be listed inside the same exact section, so you shall be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with a mouse click.
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you host your sites in a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you want to block one or a few IP addresses at some point, you may benefit from the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we've included in our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With just a few clicks, you'll be able to block individual IPs or whole ranges, if necessary. All you will need to do is select any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, decide if the blocking must be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that is part of the site, and then type in the IP address that you'd like to block. For an IP range, you simply have to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address in accordance with the size of the network which you want to block. All of the addresses that you've restricted will be listed within the same exact section and if you wish to whitelist any one of them, you'll be able to do it with simply a click anytime.