IP Blocking
What is IP blocking and what does it mean for website visitors? When is it useful?
One of the most reliable ways to limit the access to your Internet site is to block the IP addresses of individuals which must not be able to open it. There are various reasons to do that. As an example, you may want a specific person not to be able to see your site, or you may limit the access for an entire country. You can also block IP addresses if you notice that there are lots of Internet browser requests from them, if many spam comments are left on your sites or if a script login page has been loaded a lot of times. In all of these cases, 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. In this way, you will also avoid the prospect of your web server getting overloaded by many fake requests.
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IP Blocking in Shared Hosting
If you have a
shared hosting account with our company and you want to block one or a few IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, which is incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Using a rather simple interface, you are able to prevent any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it requires to do this is to log inside to your Control Panel, to visit the IP Blocking section, to choose a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to type in the IP address. You will not need to do anything difficult if you'd like 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 shall block the entire range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed within the same exact section, so you'll be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with simply a click.
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IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you host your websites inside a
semi-dedicated server account with our company and you need to block one or a number of IP addresses eventually, you'll be able to leverage the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we have supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With simply a couple of mouse clicks, you shall be able to block particular IPs or entire ranges, if required. All you'll have to do is choose 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 which is part of the Internet site, and then input the IP address that you would like to block. For an IP range, you only 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 you have restricted shall be listed inside the exact same section and if you want to whitelist any one of them, you will be able to do it with a mouse click at any time.