One of the most effective methods to limit the access to your Internet site is to block the IP addresses of individuals that should not be able to open it. There are many reasons why you should do this. For instance, you may want a certain person not to be able to see your site, or you could restrict the access for a whole nation. You could also block IP addresses in case you notice that there are lots of browser requests from them, if a huge number of spam comments are left within your Internet sites or if a script login page has been loaded a lot of times. In all of these situations, the traffic is most probably fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you can safely block any questionable IP address, so as to be on the safe side. This way, you shall also prevent the prospect of your web server getting overloaded by way too many fake requests.
IP Blocking in Cloud Web Hosting
Our Linux cloud web hosting include an IP blocking tool, so in case you'd like to limit the access to your sites, you will be able to do this with just several clicks. The tool is part of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all accounts and which is very simple to use. As you log in and navigate to the IP blocking section, you will just need to select a domain or a subdomain hosted inside the account and type in the IP address which needs to be blocked. Our system will allow you to block entire networks also, so if you type in 123.123.123., for instance, this shall block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your Internet sites. In case you would like to whitelist an IP at some point, you'll be able to unblock it with a click from the same section.
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you host your sites inside a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you want to block one or numerous IP addresses eventually, you are able to benefit from the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we have supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With just a few mouse clicks, you will be able to block specific IPs or whole ranges, if necessary. All you'll need 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 that is part of the Internet site, and then input the IP address you want to block. For an IP range, you only need 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 of the addresses that you have restricted will be listed inside the same section and if you wish to whitelist any one of them, you'll be able to do it with only a mouse click at any time.