Every now and then you may have to block particular third parties from accessing your Internet sites. There are a number of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for example, and produce fake visits and site traffic. Additionally, there are spammers who leave links to questionable Internet sites as comments to website articles. This type of things can considerably undermine your work, simply because nobody likes to visit an Internet site with hundreds of fake comments, not to mention that the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots could create high load on the server where your Internet site is hosted, which may result in the site not working correctly. Among the most effective solutions in this case is to block the IPs which produce the fake traffic, in order to be sure that the visits to your site are authentic.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool is part of the innovative Hepsia hosting Control Panel, provided with all shared hosting accounts. It shall enable you to block addresses with just a couple of clicks. No coding abilities are needed, since you will use an intuitive interface - you need to simply select a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and enter the IP address that you would like to be blocked. You'll be able to see all the IP addresses that you have added in the same section and whitelisting each of them shall take just a mouse click. If you notice that your website is being flooded by different IPs, you will be able to block a whole IP range too. This may be completed by omitting the last number of the address. For example, if you wish to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you basically need to input 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your Internet sites within a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you wish to block one or a number of IP addresses eventually, you may take advantage of the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we've provided with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With just a couple of clicks, you'll be able to block particular IPs or entire ranges, if necessary. All you shall need to do is choose 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 website, and then input the IP address that you would like to block. For an IP range, you just have to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address in accordance with the size of the network which you want to block. All of the addresses which you have restricted will be listed within the very same section and if you want to whitelist any one of them, you will be able to do it with only a click at any time.