Every now and then you may have to block particular third parties from accessing your websites. There are plenty of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for instance, and generate fake visits and site traffic. Additionally, there are spammers that leave links to questionable Internet sites as comments to site articles. This sort of things can drastically undermine your projects, as no one likes to visit a site with hundreds of fake comments, furthermore the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots could create high load on the web server on which your website is hosted, which could result in the site not working correctly. One of the best solutions in such cases is to block the IP addresses that generate the fake traffic, in order to make certain that the visits to your site are legitimate.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

If you have a shared hosting account with us and you wish to block one or several IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, that is incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Using a very simple interface, you'll be able to prevent any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it requires to perform that is to log in to your CP, to navigate to the IP Blocking section, to pick a specific domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You'll not need to do anything challenging if you want to block an entire network - you'll just need to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot will block the whole range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed inside the very same section, so you shall be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with simply a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You'll be able to block IP addresses easily and stop the undesirable traffic to any Internet site hosted in a semi-dedicated server account with us, because we provide a very easy-to-use tool to do that, that's provided with our Hepsia hosting CP. Even if you have not addressed this sort of problems in the past, you will not have any difficulties, since our tool features a very user-friendly interface. Once you navigate to the IP blocking section of the CP, you'll find a complete list of all the domains and subdomains you have added within the Hosted Domains section. What you need to do to block an IP address is select the desired domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and enter the IP in the box below. The change shall take effect at once, so you'll not get any traffic from this address in the future. Taking away an IP from the blocked list is just as simple.