From time to time you may need to block certain third parties from accessing your sites. There are a lot of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for instance, and create fake visits and traffic. There's also spammers who leave links to questionable sites as comments to blog articles. This type of things can drastically undermine your projects, because no one likes to visit an Internet site with many hundreds of fake comments, furthermore the increased traffic from both spammers and bots could generate high load on the server where your website is hosted, that could result in your site not working correctly. Among the most effective solutions in cases like this is to block the IPs which produce the fake traffic, in order to be sure that the visits to your Internet site are authentic.

IP Blocking in Web Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool is included with the revolutionary Hepsia hosting Control Panel, offered with all web hosting accounts. It shall enable you to block addresses with simply several clicks. No coding abilities are needed, since you shall use an intuitive interface - you simply need to choose a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type in the IP address that you'd like to be blocked. You will be able to see all the IP addresses which you have added inside the very same section and whitelisting each of them shall take only a mouse click. If you notice your site is being flooded by various IPs, you shall be able to block a whole IP range as well. This could be performed by omitting the last number of the address. For instance, if you want to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you just need to input 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your Internet sites inside a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you need to block one or a few IP addresses sooner or later, you can benefit from the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we've included in our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With only a few clicks, you shall be able to block particular IPs or entire ranges, if necessary. All you shall need to do is pick 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 that's part of the website, and then type in the IP address that you would like to block. For an IP range, you just need to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address based on the size of the network which you want to block. All the addresses that you have restricted shall be listed inside the same section and if you wish to whitelist any one of them, you shall be able to do it with a mouse click whenever you want.