From time to time you may need to block particular third parties from accessing your Internet sites. There are plenty of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for instance, and generate fake visits and website traffic. There are also spammers who leave links to shady Internet sites as comments to site articles. This sort of things can drastically undermine your work, since no one likes to visit a site with countless fake comments, plus the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots could create high load on the web server in which your site is hosted, which could result in the site not working properly. Among the most effective solutions in cases like this is to block the IP addresses which create the fake traffic, in order to ensure that the visits to your Internet site are legitimate.

IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting account with our company and you would like to block one or a few IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, that is included in our in-house built Hepsia CP. By using a rather simple interface, you'll be 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 this is to log within to your CP, to visit the IP Blocking section, to pick a certain domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You'll not have to do anything complicated if you'd like 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 will block the whole range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed inside the exact same section, so you'll be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with simply a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your websites inside a semi-dedicated server account with us and you need to block one or numerous IP addresses sooner or later, you could leverage the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we have supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With only a couple of clicks, you'll be able to block individual IPs or entire ranges, if necessary. All you shall have to do is pick out any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, decide if the blocking should be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that's part of the Internet site, and then type the IP address that you'd like to block. For an IP range, you only have to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address with regards to the size of the network which you want to block. All of the addresses that you've restricted shall be listed within the same exact section and if you would like to whitelist any of them, you shall be able to do it with a mouse click at any time.