Occasionally you might need to block particular third parties from accessing your websites. There are a number of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for example, and produce fake visits and website traffic. Additionally, there are spammers that leave links to questionable sites as comments to website articles. This kind of things could greatly undermine your hard work, since no one likes to visit a site with tons of fake comments, plus the increased traffic from both spammers and bots could generate high load on the server on which your Internet site is hosted, that could result in your site not working correctly. Among the most effective solutions in such cases is to block the IPs that produce the fake traffic, in order to ensure that the visits to your site are authentic.

IP Blocking in Shared Web Hosting

Our Linux shared web hosting feature an IP blocking tool, so in case you would like to restrict the access to your websites, you will be able to do this with a couple of clicks. The tool is included with the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all accounts and which is a breeze to use. As soon as you log in and navigate to the IP blocking section, you shall just need to select a domain or a subdomain hosted within the account and enter the IP address that needs to be blocked. Our system will enable you to block entire networks too, so if you input 123.123.123., for instance, this will block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your Internet sites. In case you wish to whitelist an IP at some point, you could unblock it with simply a mouse click from the same section.

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 a few IP addresses at some point, you'll be able to use the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we have supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With just a couple of clicks, you'll be able to block particular IPs or entire ranges, if needed. All you will have to do is pick out any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, choose 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 you want to block. For an IP range, you just need to omit the last octet or the last two 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 very same section and if you wish to whitelist any of them, you will be able to do it with only a click at any time.