IP Blocking
What's IP blocking and what does it mean for site visitors? When is it useful?
One of the most reliable methods to limit the access to your Internet site is to block the IP addresses of those which should not be able to open it. There are many reasons to do that. As an illustration, you may want a particular individual not to be able to see your Internet site, or you may limit the access for an entire state. You may also block IP addresses if you detect that there are lots of Internet browser requests from them, if many spam comments are left in your Internet sites or if a script login page has been loaded many times. In any of these situations, the traffic is almost certainly fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you could safely block any questionable IP address, so as to be on the safe side. This way, you'll also steer clear of the chance of your web server getting overloaded by a lot of fake requests.
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IP Blocking in Shared Hosting
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Linux shared hosting feature an IP blocking tool, so in case you would like to limit the access to your Internet sites, you will be able to do this with just a couple of mouse clicks. The tool is provided with the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all accounts and that is quite simple to use. Once you log in and visit the IP blocking section, you'll just have to choose a domain or a subdomain hosted inside the account and type in the IP address which should be blocked. Our system will allow you to block entire networks as well, so if you type in 123.123.123., for example, this will block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your Internet sites. In case you wish to whitelist an IP at some point, you'll be able to unblock it with simply a mouse click from the same section.
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IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting
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semi-dedicated server accounts include a quite simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that'll permit you to restrict individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your Internet sites with justa couple of clicks and you shall not have any troubles to accomplish that even if that's your first hosting account. As soon as you navigate to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia CP, you'll just need to choose the domain or subdomain you need from a drop-down list, then type the IP address within a box that you will see there and you will be good to go. To prohibit the access for a whole network, you have to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you input 123.123. and do not type in anything within the third and fourth positions, our hosting server shall deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.
