Occasionally you may need to block particular third parties from accessing your sites. There are a lot of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for instance, and create fake visits and site traffic. In addition, there are spammers that leave links to suspicious websites as comments to blog articles. This sort of things can drastically undermine your projects, since no one likes to visit an Internet site with hundreds of fake comments, furthermore the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots can generate high load on the web server in which your website is hosted, that could result in your site not working correctly. One of the best solutions in such a case is to block the IP addresses which generate the fake traffic, in order to be certain that the visits to your website are authentic.

IP Blocking in Hosting

If you have a hosting account with our company and you wish to block one or a few IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, that's included in our in-house built Hepsia CP. Through a rather simple interface, you can restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it requires to perform that is to log inside to your CP, to go to the IP Blocking section, to choose a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to type in the IP address. You won't have to do anything complex if you'd like to block a whole network - you'll just need to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot shall block the full range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed in the exact same section, so you will be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with simply a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated server account with us and you would like to block one or numerous IP addresses sooner or later, you can take advantage of the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we have supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With only a couple of 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, select if the blocking needs to be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder which is part of the site, and then input the IP address that you want to block. For an IP range, you just have to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address with regards to the size of the network which you want to block. All of the addresses that you've restricted will be listed in the exact same section and if you wish to whitelist any of them, you'll be able to do it with only a click anytime.