Every now and then you may have to block certain third parties from accessing your websites. There are a lot of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for example, and produce fake visits and website traffic. Additionally, there are spammers that leave links to shady websites as comments to website articles. This type of things could greatly undermine your hard work, since no one likes to visit a website with tons of fake comments, also the increased traffic from both spammers and bots may generate high load on the web server where your Internet site is hosted, that could result in the site not functioning properly. One of the best solutions in this case is to block the IP addresses that generate the fake traffic, so as to ensure that the visits to your site are authentic.

IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool is included with the revolutionary Hepsia hosting Control Panel, offered with all cloud hosting accounts. It'll enable you to block addresses with just a couple of mouse clicks. No coding abilities are necessary, as you shall use an intuitive interface - you need to simply choose a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and enter the IP address you want to be blocked. You shall be able to see all the IP addresses that you have added within the very same section and whitelisting each of them shall take simply a mouse click. If you notice that your website is being flooded by different IPs, you shall be able to block a whole IP range as well. This can be completed by omitting the last number of the address. For example, if you would like to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you basically need to enter 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts include a very simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that'll enable you to prohibit individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your Internet sites with justa couple of clicks and you shall not have any troubles to achieve that even if that is your first web hosting account. Once you go to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you'll just have to select the domain or subdomain you need from a drop-down list, then input the IP address inside a box that you will see there and you will be ready. To restrict the access for a whole network, you need to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you type in 123.123. and do not type anything inside the third and fourth positions, our web server shall deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.