From time to time you may need to block certain third parties from accessing your Internet sites. There are plenty of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for example, and produce fake visits and traffic. In addition, there are spammers that leave links to suspicious websites as comments to website articles. This type of things may drastically undermine your hard work, because nobody likes to visit an Internet site with many hundreds of fake comments, plus the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots could generate high load on the web server on which your website is hosted, which could result in the site not working correctly. One of the best solutions in this case is to block the IPs that generate the fake traffic, so as to make certain that the visits to your site are authentic.

IP Blocking in Website Hosting

Our website hosting provide an IP blocking tool, so if you would like to restrict the access to your websites, it shall be able to do this with a couple of clicks. The tool is provided with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all accounts and which is very easy to use. As soon as you log in and go to the IP blocking section, you'll just have to pick a domain or a subdomain hosted within the account and enter the IP address which should be blocked. Our system enables you to block whole networks as well, so if you type in 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 a mouse click from the same section.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your websites inside a semi-dedicated server account with us and you need to block one or a number of IP addresses at some point, you are able to take advantage of the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we have supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With a couple of mouse clicks, you'll be able to block specific IPs or whole ranges, if necessary. All you will have to do is pick out any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, select if the blocking needs to be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that is part of the site, and then enter the IP address that you'd like to block. For an IP range, you just have to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address depending on the size of the network which you want to block. Each of the addresses that you have restricted will be listed within the same exact section and if you want to whitelist any one of them, you shall be able to do it with just a mouse click whenever you want.