Occasionally you may need to block certain third parties from accessing your sites. There are a number of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for example, and create fake visits and site traffic. There are also spammers who leave links to suspicious Internet sites as comments to website articles. This kind of things may drastically undermine your projects, simply because nobody likes to visit a site with many fake comments, not to mention that the increased traffic from both spammers and bots could create high load on the server in which your website is hosted, that can result in the site not working correctly. Among the most effective solutions in such a case is to block the IPs that generate the fake traffic, in order to be certain that the visits to your website are real.

IP Blocking in Cloud Web Hosting

If you have a cloud web hosting account with our company and you wish to block one or a few IP addresses, you may use the IP Blocking tool, which is integrated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Through a pretty simple interface, you can stop any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it takes to complete this is to log within to your Control Panel, to visit the IP Blocking section, to pick a specific domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You simply won't need to do anything difficult if you wish to block a whole network - you'll simply have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot will block the entire range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed within the same section, so you shall be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with only a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your websites inside a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you wish to block one or a few IP addresses sooner or later, 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 several mouse clicks, you shall be able to block individual IPs or whole ranges, if necessary. All you will need to do is pick out 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 which is part of the website, and then type in the IP address that you'd like to block. For an IP range, you only need to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address based on the size of the network you want to block. Each of the addresses you have restricted shall be listed in the exact same section and if you wish to whitelist any of them, you shall be able to do it with just a click anytime.