Occasionally you may have to block particular third parties from accessing your websites. There are plenty of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for example, and generate fake visits and website traffic. There are also spammers that leave links to questionable sites as comments to site articles. Such things may considerably undermine your hard work, since no one likes to visit a site with countless fake comments, not to mention that the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots may create high load on the server on which your Internet site is hosted, which could result in your site not working properly. Among the most effective solutions in cases like this is to block the IPs which produce the fake traffic, as a way to make certain 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 number of IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, which is incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. By using a rather simple interface, you are able to stop any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it requires to do this is to log in to your CP, to check out the IP Blocking section, to choose a specific domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You will not need to do anything complex if you would like to block a whole network - you will simply have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot shall 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 mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our semi-dedicated server accounts come with a rather simple-to-use IP blocking tool, which will permit you to restrict individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your Internet sites with no more thana couple of clicks and you will not have any issues to accomplish that even if this is your first website hosting account. As soon as you go to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia CP, you will just need to select the domain or subdomain you want from a drop-down list, then type the IP address inside a box that you'll see there and you will be ready. To prohibit the access for a whole network, you must leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you enter 123.123. and do not type anything within the third and fourth positions, our web server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.