One of the most reliable methods to restrict the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of the individuals that shouldn't be able to open it. There are numerous reasons to do this. As an example, you may want a particular individual not to be able to see your website, or you can restrict the access for a whole country. You can even block IP addresses in case you discover that there are way too many web browser requests from them, if a large number of spam comments are left in your Internet sites or if a script login page has been loaded a lot of times. In any of these cases, the traffic is most likely fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you may safely block any questionable IP address, to be on the safe side. Thus, you shall also avoid the possibility of your hosting server getting overloaded by many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

If you have a shared hosting account with us and you wish to block one or a number of IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, that is incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Through a very simple interface, you can stop any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it takes to perform that is to log within to your CP, to check out the IP Blocking section, to choose a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You will not need to do anything complicated if you wish to block an entire 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 shall be listed within the very same section, so you will be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with just a mouse click.