One of the most productive ways to restrict the access to your Internet site is to block the IP addresses of individuals which shouldn't be able to open it. There are many good reasons to do this. As an example, you may want a specific individual not to be able to see your Internet site, or you could restrict the access for an entire state. You may also block IP addresses in case you discover that there are lots of web browser requests from them, if a large number of spam comments are left in your sites or if a script login page has been loaded a lot of times. In each of these situations, the traffic is most likely fake and has been generated by an automatic bot, so you can safely block any questionable IP address, to be on the safe side. That way, you'll also prevent the possibility of your server getting overloaded by way too many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

If you have a shared hosting account with us and you would like to block one or several IP addresses, you may use the IP Blocking tool, that is integrated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. By using a pretty simple interface, you are able to stop any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it requires to perform this is to log inside to your CP, to check out 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 won't have to do anything difficult if you want 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 same section, so you will be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with only a mouse click.