Once in a while you may need to block certain third parties from accessing your websites. There are plenty of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for instance, and produce fake visits and site traffic. Additionally, there are spammers who leave links to questionable websites as comments to site articles. Such things can drastically undermine your hard work, since nobody likes to visit an Internet site with many fake comments, furthermore the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots may create high load on the server where your Internet site is hosted, that can result in the site not working correctly. One of the best solutions in this case is to block the IP addresses which create the fake traffic, in order to make certain that the visits to your site are legitimate.

IP Blocking in Web Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool comes with the ground breaking Hepsia hosting CP, provided with all web hosting accounts. It will enable you to block addresses with simply a few clicks. No coding skills are required, as you shall use an intuitive interface - you need to simply select a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and enter the IP address you want to be blocked. You shall be able to see all the IP addresses you have added inside the same section and whitelisting each of them will take just a click. If you notice your website is being flooded by numerous IPs, you will be able to block a whole IP range too. This could be done by omitting the last number of the address. For example, if you want to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you simply need to type in 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated server account with us and you need to block one or several IP addresses sooner or later, you'll be able to take advantage of the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we've included in our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With just a couple of clicks, you shall be able to block individual IPs or entire ranges, if necessary. All you'll need to do is pick any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, choose if the blocking should be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that's part of the Internet site, and then type in the IP address that you want to block. For an IP range, you simply have to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address in accordance with the size of the network that you want to block. All the addresses which you have restricted shall be listed within the very same section and if you wish to whitelist any one of them, you will be able to do it with just a mouse click whenever you want.