Every now and then you may need to block certain third parties from accessing your Internet sites. There are a number of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for instance, and create fake visits and site traffic. There's also spammers that leave links to questionable sites as comments to website articles. This kind of things can significantly undermine your projects, as nobody likes to visit a website with countless fake comments, not to mention that the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots can generate 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 IPs which produce the fake traffic, as a way to ensure that the visits to your website are legitimate.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

If you have a shared hosting account with our company and you wish to block one or a few IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, that is integrated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. By using a very simple interface, you could restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it requires to perform this is to log inside to your Control Panel, to check out the IP Blocking section, to pick a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You simply won't have to do anything difficult if you want to block an entire network - you'll simply have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot will block the full range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed in the very same section, so you will be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with simply a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, included with our semi-dedicated plans, will permit you to solve the matter with unwanted traffic very efficiently. It incorporates an IP blocking tool where you may add IP addresses with only several clicks. All domains and subdomains you have inside the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you simply have to select the one you need and then type in the IP address that needs to be blocked. If you wish to block an entire range, a C-class network for instance, you simply need to input the first 3 octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That will block all 254 addresses, so you will not need to input them by hand. As all the IPs which you add in this section will be listed, you may quickly unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button associated with the particular IP.