From time to time you might need to block particular third parties from accessing your websites. There are plenty of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for instance, and create fake visits and website traffic. There are also spammers who leave links to questionable Internet sites as comments to blog articles. This kind of things could drastically undermine your work, as nobody likes to visit an Internet site with countless fake comments, plus the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots could create high load on the server on which your site is hosted, that could result in the site not functioning properly. One of the best solutions in such a case is to block the IPs that create the fake traffic, so as to ensure that the visits to your website are authentic.

IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting account with our company and you want to block one or a few IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, that's incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. Through a rather simple interface, you could restrict 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 CP, to go to the IP Blocking section, to choose a specific domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to type in the IP address. You'll not have to do anything challenging if you wish to block a whole network - you will just have 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 shall be listed in the same exact section, so you will be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your Internet sites within a semi-dedicated server account with us and you wish to block one or several IP addresses eventually, you'll be able to use the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we have supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With several mouse clicks, you will be able to block certain IPs or whole ranges, if required. All you'll have to do is choose any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, select if the blocking needs to be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder which is part of the site, and then type the IP address that you would like to block. For an IP range, you just have to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address with regards to the size of the network you want to block. All of the addresses which you have restricted shall be listed within the exact same section and if you would like to whitelist any one of them, you shall be able to do it with a mouse click whenever you want.