Occasionally you might need to block particular third parties from accessing your Internet sites. There are a number of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for instance, and produce fake visits and online traffic. There are also spammers who leave links to shady websites as comments to blog articles. This kind of things can drastically undermine your hard work, as no one likes to visit a website with many fake comments, not to mention that the increased traffic from both spammers and bots could generate high load on the server where your website is hosted, which can result in your site not functioning properly. One of the best solutions in such a case is to block the IP addresses that generate the fake traffic, in order to make certain that the visits to your Internet site are real.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

Our shared hosting offer an IP blocking tool, so in case you'd like to restrict the access to your sites, it shall be able to do so with only a couple of clicks. The tool is part of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all accounts and that's super easy to use. When you log in and check out the IP blocking section, you will just need to select a domain or a subdomain hosted inside the account and type the IP address that needs to be blocked. Our system will enable you to block whole networks also, so if you type 123.123.123., for example, this shall block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your websites. If you would like to whitelist an IP at some point, you may unblock it with just a mouse click from the same section.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

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 sooner or later, you are able to take advantage of the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we've provided with our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With simply a couple of mouse clicks, you will be able to block specific IPs or entire ranges, if necessary. All you shall have to do is select any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, choose if the blocking needs to be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that is part of the site, 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. Each of the addresses which you have restricted shall be listed in the same section and if you want to whitelist any of them, you'll be able to do it with a click whenever you want.