Every now and then you may have to block certain third parties from accessing your sites. There are plenty of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for example, and create fake visits and site traffic. There's also spammers who leave links to questionable sites as comments to site articles. This kind of things can significantly undermine your hard work, as no one likes to visit a site with countless fake comments, also the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots may create high load on the server on which your site is hosted, that can result in the site not working properly. One of the best solutions in such cases is to block the IP addresses that create the fake traffic, as a way to be sure that the visits to your Internet site are authentic.

IP Blocking in Cloud Web Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool is part of the innovative Hepsia hosting Control Panel, provided with all cloud web hosting accounts. It'll enable you to block addresses with just a few mouse clicks. No coding abilities are required, as you'll use an intuitive interface - you need to simply pick a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and input the IP address that you want to be blocked. You shall be able to see all the IP addresses which you have added within the same section and whitelisting any of them will take just a click. If you notice your site is being flooded by various IPs, you'll be able to block a whole IP range also. This can be done by omitting the last number of the address. For instance, if you would like to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you just have to type in 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 us and you would like to block one or numerous IP addresses eventually, you are able to leverage 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 will be able to block certain IPs or whole ranges, if needed. All you'll need to do is pick out any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, select if the blocking must be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that is part of the site, and then type the IP address that you would like to block. For an IP range, you simply need 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 the addresses that you've restricted shall be listed in the exact same section and if you would like to whitelist any of them, you shall be able to do it with only a mouse click at any time.