One of the most effective ways to restrict the access to your Internet site is to block the IP addresses of those which must not be able to open it. There are many reasons why you should do this. For example, you may want a particular individual not to be able to see your Internet site, or you could limit the access for a whole country. You could also block IP addresses in case you notice that there are lots of Internet browser requests from them, if a huge number of spam comments are left on your sites or if a script login page has been loaded a large number of times. In all of these scenarios, the traffic is almost certainly fake and has been generated by an automatic bot, so you can safely block any shady IP address, to be on the safe side. Thus, you will also stay away from the possibility of your web server getting overloaded by a lot of fake requests.
IP Blocking in Shared Website Hosting
If you have a shared website hosting account with our company and you wish to block one or several IP addresses, you may use the IP Blocking tool, that is incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. Through a very simple interface, you could stop any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it requires to complete this is to log inside to your CP, to check out the IP Blocking section, to select a specific domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You simply won't need to do anything complex if you want to block a whole network - you will just need to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot shall block the entire range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed within the very same section, so you'll be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with a mouse click.