Every now and then you might need to block specific third parties from accessing your Internet sites. There are plenty of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for example, and create fake visits and website traffic. There are spammers that leave links to suspicious Internet sites as comments to website articles. Such things can greatly undermine your projects, simply because no one likes to visit a site with hundreds of fake comments, plus the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots could generate high load on the web server on which your Internet site is hosted, which could result in the site not functioning properly. One of the best solutions in such cases is to block the IPs which generate the fake traffic, as a way to be certain that the visits to your Internet site are real.

IP Blocking in Web Hosting

If you have a web hosting account with us and you would like to block one or a number of IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, that's included in our in-house built Hepsia CP. By using a very simple interface, you could restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it takes to do this is to log within to your Control Panel, to visit the IP Blocking section, to pick a specific domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You won't need to do anything complicated if you'd like to block a whole network - you will simply 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 will be listed within the same exact section, so you'll be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with only a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your websites in a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you would like to block one or numerous IP addresses at some point, you may leverage the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we have provided with our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With a couple of mouse clicks, you'll be able to block certain IPs or entire ranges, if needed. All you will need to do is choose any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, decide if the blocking must be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that's part of the site, and then type in the IP address that you would like to block. For an IP range, you simply need to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address based on the size of the network that you want to block. All the addresses which you have restricted shall be listed inside the very same section and if you wish to whitelist any of them, you shall be able to do it with only a mouse click whenever you want.