Every now and then you may have to block particular third parties from accessing your Internet sites. There are a number of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for example, and produce fake visits and website traffic. There's also spammers that leave links to suspicious websites as comments to blog articles. This kind of things could considerably undermine your work, as no one likes to visit an Internet site with countless fake comments, not to mention that the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots could generate high load on the web server in which your Internet site is hosted, that could result in the site not working properly. Among the most effective solutions in this case is to block the IP addresses that create the fake traffic, so as to make certain that the visits to your website are legitimate.

IP Blocking in Cloud Website Hosting

If you have a cloud website hosting account with our company and you would like to block one or several IP addresses, you may use the IP Blocking tool, that's integrated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Using a really simple interface, you could stop any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it takes to perform that is to log inside to your Control Panel, to navigate to the IP Blocking section, to select a specific domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to type in the IP address. You simply won't have to do anything challenging if you would like to block an entire network - you'll just 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 will be listed within the same section, so you'll be able to remove any 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 wish to block one or a few IP addresses at some point, you are able to benefit from the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we've included in our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With just a few clicks, you shall be able to block specific IPs or entire ranges, if needed. All you shall have to do is pick out any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, choose if the blocking must be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that is part of the site, and then type in the IP address that you'd like to block. For an IP range, you only have to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address depending on the size of the network you want to block. Each of the addresses that you've restricted will be listed inside the exact same section and if you want to whitelist any of them, you shall be able to do it with a mouse click at any time.