From time to time you may have to block certain third parties from accessing your sites. There are a number of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for example, and produce fake visits and website traffic. There are spammers that leave links to suspicious websites as comments to site articles. Such things could considerably undermine your work, since no one likes to visit a site with tons of fake comments, also the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots can create high load on the web server in which your Internet site is hosted, which may result in the site not working properly. One of the best solutions in cases like this is to block the IP addresses which produce the fake traffic, as a way to make sure that the visits to your website are legitimate.

IP Blocking in Hosting

If you have a hosting account with our company and you wish to block one or several IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, that is integrated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. Through a very simple interface, you could prevent any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it takes to perform that is to log inside to your Control Panel, to check out the IP Blocking section, to select a specific domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You'll not have to do anything complex if you want to block a whole network - you will just need to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot shall block the whole range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed within the very same section, so you shall be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts feature a really simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that'll permit you to prohibit individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your Internet sites with justseveral clicks and you shall not have any issues to accomplish that even if this is your first website hosting account. As soon as you navigate to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia CP, you'll just need to pick the domain or subdomain in question from a drop-down list, then input the IP address within a box that you'll see there and you will be good to go. To restrict the access for an entire network, you need to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you type in 123.123. and don't type in anything within the third and fourth positions, our server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.