Occasionally you may have to block specific third parties from accessing your websites. There are plenty of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for example, and produce fake visits and website traffic. There are also spammers who leave links to questionable websites as comments to website articles. This sort of things can considerably undermine your hard work, since nobody likes to visit a website with tons of fake comments, furthermore the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots can create high load on the server on which your site is hosted, that could result in the site not working correctly. Among the most effective solutions in such cases is to block the IPs which create the fake traffic, as a way to make sure that the visits to your website are authentic.

IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting

Our cloud hosting service offer an IP blocking tool, so if you want to limit the access to your sites, you will be able to do so with only a couple of mouse clicks. The tool is included with the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all accounts and that is very simple to use. Once you log in and go to the IP blocking section, you will just have to choose a domain or a subdomain hosted in the account and input the IP address which should be blocked. Our system enables you to block whole networks too, so if you type in 123.123.123., for instance, this shall block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your Internet sites. In case you wish to whitelist an IP at some point, you can unblock it with just a click from the same section.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your websites in a semi-dedicated server account with us and you wish to block one or numerous IP addresses eventually, you'll be able to take advantage of the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we have included in our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With simply a few mouse clicks, you shall be able to block particular IPs or whole ranges, if required. All you shall need to do is pick any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, choose if the blocking should be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that is part of the website, and then input the IP address you want to block. For an IP range, you simply have to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address with regards to the size of the network that you want to block. Each of the addresses that you've restricted shall be listed inside the same exact section and if you want to whitelist any of them, you will be able to do it with simply a click at any time.