One of the most effective ways to limit the access to your site is to block the IP addresses of individuals which shouldn't be able to open it. There are several reasons to do that. As an illustration, you may want a particular person not to be able to see your website, or you could restrict the access for an entire country. You may also block IP addresses in case you notice that there are lots of Internet 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 large number of times. In any of these cases, the traffic is most likely fake and has been created by an automatic bot, so you could safely block any suspicious IP address, in order to be on the safe side. This way, you will also avoid the chance of your hosting server getting overloaded by a lot of fake requests.

IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting account with our company and you want to block one or several IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, which is integrated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Through a pretty simple interface, you can restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it requires to perform this is to log in to your Control Panel, to navigate to the IP Blocking section, to select 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 will just have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot will block the full range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed in the same exact section, so you will be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with just a mouse click.