From time to time you may need to block specific third parties from accessing your websites. There are a number of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for example, and produce fake visits and online traffic. There's also spammers that leave links to suspicious websites as comments to site articles. This kind of things may significantly undermine your hard work, simply because no one likes to visit a site with countless fake comments, not to mention that the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots could generate high load on the server in which your website is hosted, which may result in the site not working properly. One of the best solutions in such a case is to block the IPs that produce the fake traffic, so as to be certain that the visits to your Internet site are authentic.

IP Blocking in Website Hosting

If you have a website hosting account with us and you would like to block one or a few IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, which is included in our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Using a really simple interface, you can stop 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 check out the IP Blocking section, to select a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You simply won't have to do anything difficult if you wish to block an entire network - you'll just have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot shall block the entire range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed inside the exact same section, so you shall 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 inside a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you would like to block one or a few IP addresses at some point, you are able to use the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we've provided with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With just several mouse clicks, you shall be able to block specific IPs or whole ranges, if needed. All you will need to do is pick out any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, choose if the blocking must be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that is part of the site, and then input the IP address you want to block. For an IP range, you only 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. Each of the addresses that you've restricted shall be listed within the same section and if you wish to whitelist any one of them, you'll be able to do it with just a click anytime.