IP Blocking
What is IP blocking and what does it mean for site visitors? When is it handy?
One of the most reliable ways to limit the access to your site is to block the IP addresses of individuals which must not be able to open it. There are several reasons to do that. As an example, you may want a specific individual not to be able to see your Internet site, or you can limit the access for a whole country. You can even block IP addresses if you notice that there are way too many Internet browser requests from them, if a huge number of 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 scenarios, the traffic is more than likely fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you may safely block any suspicious IP address, so as to be on the safe side. In this way, you will also stay away from the possibility of your web server getting overloaded by way too many fake requests.
IP Blocking in Web Hosting
If you have a web hosting account with our company and you would like to block one or several IP addresses, you may use the IP Blocking tool, that's incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Using a very simple interface, you could restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it requires to perform that is to log within to your Control Panel, to go to the IP Blocking section, to pick a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You simply won't need to do anything difficult if you want to block an entire network - you'll just have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot shall block the full range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed in the same section, so you shall be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with a click.