One of the most reliable ways to restrict the access to your site is to block the IP addresses of those that should not be able to open it. There are various good reasons to do that. For instance, you may want a specific person not to be able to see your site, or you can limit the access for a whole country. You could also block IP addresses in case you notice that there are way too many web browser requests from them, if a lot of spam comments are left in your websites or if a script login page has been loaded a large number of times. In each of these situations, the traffic is almost certainly fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you could safely block any suspicious IP address, to be on the safe side. Thus, you'll also stay away from the chance of your server getting overloaded by too many fake requests.
IP Blocking in Shared Web Hosting
If you have a shared web hosting account with our company and you would like to block one or several IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, that is included in our in-house built Hepsia CP. Through a really simple interface, you can prevent 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 in to your Control Panel, to go to the IP Blocking section, to select a certain domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You shall not have to do anything complicated if you'd like 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 will block the entire range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed inside the same section, so you'll be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with simply a click.
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, included with our semi-dedicated servers, will permit you to solve the challenge with unwanted traffic very quickly and easily. It comes with an IP blocking tool where you can add IP addresses with just a couple of mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains which you have within the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only need to select the one you need and then type the IP address which should be blocked. If you wish to block a whole range, a C-class network for example, you just have to input the first 3 octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That will block all 254 addresses, so you will not need to input them manually. As all the IPs that you include in this section shall be listed, you can easily unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button associated with the particular IP.