Once in a while you may have to block certain third parties from accessing your Internet sites. There are a number of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for instance, and create fake visits and website traffic. There are also spammers who leave links to suspicious sites as comments to blog articles. This kind of things could drastically undermine your hard work, since nobody likes to visit a website with many hundreds of fake comments, furthermore the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots may create high load on the server in which your Internet site is hosted, that can result in the site not working correctly. One of the best solutions in cases like this is to block the IP addresses that generate the fake traffic, as a way to be certain that the visits to your website are legitimate.

IP Blocking in Cloud Web Hosting

If you have a cloud web hosting account with our company and you would like to block one or a few IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, that is integrated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Through a really simple interface, you are able to stop any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it requires to complete that is to log inside to your Control Panel, to navigate to the IP Blocking section, to choose a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You simply won't have to do anything difficult 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 full range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed in the same section, so you'll be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your Internet sites inside a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you would like to block one or a number of IP addresses eventually, you could leverage the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we have supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With just a couple of clicks, you shall be able to block individual IPs or entire ranges, if needed. All you shall have to do is pick 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 is part of the website, and then type in the IP address that you want to block. For an IP range, you only have to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address with regards to the size of the network you want to block. Each of the addresses that you've restricted will be listed within the same exact section and if you want to whitelist any of them, you'll be able to do it with a click anytime.