Occasionally you might need to block particular third parties from accessing your Internet sites. There are plenty of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for instance, and create fake visits and website traffic. There's also spammers that leave links to suspicious Internet sites as comments to site articles. Such things could drastically undermine your work, because nobody likes to visit a website with many fake comments, also the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots may generate high load on the server in which your site is hosted, which can result in your site not working properly. One of the best solutions in this case is to block the IP addresses that generate the fake traffic, in order to make certain that the visits to your website are legitimate.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

If you have a shared hosting account with us and you would like to block one or several IP addresses, you may use the IP Blocking tool, that's incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. Through a pretty simple interface, you are able to prevent any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it requires to perform this is to log in to your CP, to check out the IP Blocking section, to select a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to type in the IP address. You will not need to do anything complicated if you would like to block a whole network - you will just have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot shall block the entire range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed within the exact same section, so you'll be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

You'll be able to block IP addresses easily and stop the unwelcome traffic to any site hosted inside a semi-dedicated server account with us, as we offer a really easy-to-use tool to do that, that's included with our Hepsia hosting CP. Even if you have never addressed this kind of matters in the past, you'll not have any difficulties, as our tool features a very user-friendly interface. When you go to the IP blocking section of the Control Panel, you will find a full list of all the domains and subdomains which you have added within the Hosted Domains section. All you need to do to block an IP address is pick the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and type in the IP inside the box below. The change shall take effect at once, so you'll not get any traffic from this address in the future. Removing an IP from the blocked list is equally easy.