One of the most efficient approaches to restrict the access to your site is to block the IP addresses of the people which shouldn't be able to open it. There are many reasons why you should do that. As an example, you may want a specific person not to be able to see your website, or you could limit the access for an entire nation. You may also block IP addresses if you discover that there are too many Internet browser requests from them, if a lot of spam comments are left within your sites or if a script login page has been loaded a lot of times. In all of these scenarios, the traffic is more than likely fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you can safely block any questionable IP address, so as to be on the safe side. Thus, you will also avoid the chance of your server getting overloaded by too many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool comes with the advanced Hepsia hosting Control Panel, offered with all cloud hosting accounts. It shall allow you to block addresses with a few mouse clicks. No coding skills are needed, since you'll use an intuitive interface - you need to simply choose a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type the IP address you want to be blocked. You shall be able to see all the IP addresses that you have added within the same section and whitelisting any of them will take just a click. If you notice your site is being flooded by different IPs, you shall be able to block an entire IP range as well. This can be done by omitting the last number of the address. For instance, if you wish to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you simply have to type in 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .