From time to time you may need to block specific third parties from accessing your websites. There are plenty of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for instance, and generate fake visits and site traffic. There are spammers that leave links to questionable Internet sites as comments to blog articles. This type of things can greatly undermine your work, as nobody likes to visit a website with hundreds of fake comments, furthermore the increased traffic from both spammers and bots could generate high load on the web server where your website is hosted, that could result in the site not working properly. Among the most effective solutions in cases like this is to block the IPs which create the fake traffic, so as to ensure that the visits to your website are real.

IP Blocking in Hosting

Our hosting provide an IP blocking tool, so in case you would like to restrict the access to your Internet sites, you will be able to do this with only a couple of mouse clicks. The tool is included with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all accounts and that's super easy to use. As you log in and visit the IP blocking section, you'll just need to choose a domain or a subdomain hosted within the account and type in the IP address which needs to be blocked. Our system allows you to block whole networks too, so if you enter 123.123.123., for example, this'll block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your Internet sites. If you would like to whitelist an IP at some point, you can unblock it with just a click from the same section.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with our semi-dedicated servers, will enable you to solve the problem with unwanted traffic very easily. It comes with an IP blocking tool in which you could add IP addresses with just several mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains you have in the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you just have to select the one you need and then enter the IP address that should be blocked. If you would like to block an entire range, a C-class network for instance, you simply need to type in the first 3 octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That shall block all 254 addresses, so you will not have to enter them by hand. As all the IPs that you include in this section shall be listed, you may very easily unblock any of them by clicking the Delete button related to the particular IP.