From time to time you may have to block certain third parties from accessing your Internet sites. There are a number of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for example, and create fake visits and online traffic. In addition, there are spammers who leave links to shady websites as comments to site articles. This type of things can considerably undermine your projects, as nobody likes to visit a website with hundreds of fake comments, furthermore the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots could generate high load on the server where your site is hosted, which may result in your site not working correctly. 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

Our hosting offer an IP blocking tool, so in case you'd like to limit the access to your sites, you will be able to do this with simply a few clicks. The tool is provided with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all accounts and which is super easy to use. As you log in and go to the IP blocking section, you'll just need to choose a domain or a subdomain hosted in the account and enter the IP address which should be blocked. Our system enables you to block entire networks also, so if you enter 123.123.123., for instance, this'll block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your websites. If you want to whitelist an IP at some point, you'll be able to unblock it with a mouse click from the same section.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your Internet sites inside a semi-dedicated server account with us and you would like to block one or a number of IP addresses at some point, you'll be able to leverage the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we have provided with our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With a couple of mouse clicks, you shall be able to block certain IPs or entire ranges, if needed. All you will have to do is pick 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'd like to block. For an IP range, you only have to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address with regards to the size of the network you want to block. All the addresses that you've restricted shall be listed in the exact same section and if you wish to whitelist any one of them, you'll be able to do it with only a mouse click anytime.