From time to time you may have to block specific third parties from accessing your Internet sites. There are a lot of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for example, and produce fake visits and website traffic. There's also spammers who leave links to questionable Internet sites as comments to blog articles. This kind of things could significantly undermine your projects, as nobody likes to visit a website with tons of fake comments, furthermore the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots can create high load on the web server where your site is hosted, which may result in the site not working correctly. One of the best solutions in such cases is to block the IP addresses which generate the fake traffic, in order to be certain that the visits to your website are real.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

If you have a shared hosting account with our company and you would like to block one or several IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, that is integrated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. By using a rather simple interface, you can prevent any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it takes to complete that is to log in to your Control Panel, to check out the IP Blocking section, to pick a specific domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You won't have to do anything challenging if you'd like to block a whole network - you will just need to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot shall block the whole range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed in the exact same section, so you will be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with simply a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your Internet sites inside a semi-dedicated server account with us and you wish to block one or numerous IP addresses at some point, you are able to benefit from the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we have included in our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With just several clicks, you'll be able to block particular IPs or whole ranges, if necessary. All you will need to do is pick out 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 the IP address that you want to block. For an IP range, you only need to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address depending on the size of the network that you want to block. All of the addresses that you've restricted shall be listed inside the same exact section and if you would like to whitelist any one of them, you shall be able to do it with just a mouse click anytime.