Once in a while you may need to block certain third parties from accessing your websites. There are a number of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for instance, and produce fake visits and website traffic. There are spammers that leave links to suspicious websites as comments to site articles. This type of things could considerably undermine your projects, as nobody likes to visit an Internet site with hundreds of fake comments, plus the increased traffic from both spammers and bots may generate high load on the server where your Internet site is hosted, that could result in the site not working correctly. One of the best solutions in such cases is to block the IP addresses which produce the fake traffic, in order to ensure that the visits to your website are authentic.

IP Blocking in Shared Web Hosting

Our shared web hosting provide an IP blocking tool, so if you would like to limit the access to your Internet sites, you will be able to do this with only a few mouse clicks. The tool is provided with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all accounts and that is very easy to use. As soon as you log in and go to the IP blocking section, you shall just need to choose a domain or a subdomain hosted inside the account and type the IP address that should be blocked. Our system allows you to block entire networks too, so if you enter 123.123.123., for instance, this will block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your Internet sites. If you would like to whitelist an IP at some point, you could unblock it with a mouse click from the same section.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting CP, provided with our semi-dedicated servers, will enable you to solve the issue with unwanted traffic very easily. It incorporates an IP blocking tool in which you could add IP addresses with only a few clicks. All domains and subdomains that you have in the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only need to choose the one you need and then enter the IP address which has to be blocked. If you would like to block an entire range, a C-class network for instance, you just need to enter the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That will block all 254 addresses, so you shall not need to type them manually. As all the IPs you add in this section will be listed, you can very easily unblock any of them by clicking the Delete button related to the particular IP.