IP Blocking
What is IP blocking and what does it mean for site visitors? In which cases is it handy?
One of the most effective approaches to limit the access to your site is to block the IP addresses of those that shouldn't be able to open it. There are various reasons to do that. As an illustration, you may want a specific person not to be able to see your site, or you could limit the access for an entire nation. You can also block IP addresses if you detect that there are lots of Internet browser requests from them, if many spam comments are left within your websites or if a script login page has been loaded a lot of times. In any of these situations, the traffic is almost certainly fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you may safely block any shady IP address, so as to be on the safe side. This way, you shall also stay away from the possibility of your web server getting overloaded by many fake requests.
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IP Blocking in Shared Hosting
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Linux shared hosting service provide an IP blocking tool, so in case you'd like to limit the access to your websites, you'll be able to do this with simply a couple of clicks. The tool is part of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all accounts and which is a breeze to use. Once you log in and visit the IP blocking section, you shall just need to choose a domain or a subdomain hosted inside the account and input the IP address which needs to be blocked. Our system allows you to block entire networks as well, so if you enter 123.123.123., for instance, this will block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your Internet sites. If you want to whitelist an IP at some point, you may unblock it with just a mouse click from the same section.
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IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, included with our
semi-dedicated hosting service, will enable you to solve the challenge with unwanted traffic very easily and quickly. It comes with an IP blocking tool in which you could add IP addresses with just several mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains that you have inside the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you simply have to choose the one you need and then type the IP address which needs to be blocked. If you would like to block a whole range, a C-class network for example, you simply need to input the first 3 octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That shall block all 254 addresses, so you will not need to enter them manually. Considering that all the IPs which you add in this section shall be listed, you can very easily unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button associated with the given IP.