One of the most effective methods to limit the access to your site is to block the IP addresses of the people that mustn't be able to open it. There are many reasons to do that. For instance, you may want a particular person not to be able to see your website, or you may restrict the access for a whole nation. You can even block IP addresses if you discover that there are too many web browser requests from them, if many spam comments are left in 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 can safely block any suspicious IP address, in order to be on the safe side. This way, you shall also prevent the chance of your server getting overloaded by many 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 may use the IP Blocking tool, which is integrated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. By using a pretty simple interface, you are able to prevent any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it takes to do this is to log in 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 input the IP address. You simply won't have to do anything challenging if you wish to block an entire network - you will 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 exact section, so you shall be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with just a click.