One of the most effective ways to restrict the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of the individuals that should not be able to open it. There are various reasons why you should do this. As an example, you may want a certain individual not to be able to see your Internet site, or you can limit the access for a whole nation. You could also block IP addresses if you discover that there are too many browser requests from them, if a huge number of spam comments are left within your sites or if a script login page has been loaded a large number of times. In any of these cases, the traffic is almost certainly fake and has been created by an automatic bot, so you can safely block any questionable IP address, so as to be on the safe side. Thus, you shall also steer clear of the possibility of your hosting 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 could use the IP Blocking tool, that is incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. By using a pretty simple interface, you'll be able to prevent any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it takes to complete that is to log in to your Control Panel, to visit the IP Blocking section, to select a certain domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to type in the IP address. You will not have to do anything complex if you'd like 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 will block the full range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed in the exact same section, so you shall be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with just a click.