Occasionally you may have to block particular third parties from accessing your Internet sites. There are a number of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for instance, and generate fake visits and traffic. There are also spammers that leave links to shady websites as comments to site articles. Such things could significantly undermine your projects, simply because no one likes to visit a website with many hundreds of fake comments, also the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots may generate high load on the server in which your Internet site is hosted, which can result in your site not working correctly. Among the most effective solutions in such a case is to block the IPs which create the fake traffic, in order to be sure that the visits to your Internet site are authentic.

IP Blocking in Web Hosting

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

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your websites inside a semi-dedicated server account with us and you wish to block one or several IP addresses sooner or later, you can benefit from the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we've included in our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With several clicks, you'll be able to block individual IPs or whole ranges, if necessary. All you shall have to do is choose any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, choose if the blocking should 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 just have to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address in accordance with the size of the network which you want to block. Each of the addresses which you have restricted will be listed inside the same exact section and if you want to whitelist any of them, you shall be able to do it with simply a click anytime.