Every now and then you may need to block particular third parties from accessing your websites. There are a lot of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for example, and create fake visits and traffic. There's also spammers who leave links to suspicious sites as comments to blog articles. Such things could considerably undermine your work, simply because no one likes to visit a website with many hundreds of fake comments, also the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots can generate high load on the server on which your Internet site is hosted, which could result in the site not working correctly. One of the best solutions in cases like this is to block the IPs which produce the fake traffic, in order to be sure 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 several IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, that's incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. Through 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 complete that is to log within to your Control Panel, to visit the IP Blocking section, to choose a specific domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You won't need to do anything complex if you wish to block an entire network - you will just 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 inside the exact same section, so you shall be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with only a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts feature a very simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that'll allow you to restrict individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your Internet sites with simplyseveral clicks and you shall not have any difficulties to do that even if this is your first hosting account. Once you go to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you will just have to select the domain or subdomain you need from a drop-down list, then type the IP address within a box which you'll see there and you will be all set. To restrict the access for a whole network, you must leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you type in 123.123. and do not type in anything within the third and fourth positions, our web server shall deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.