From time to time you might need to block specific third parties from accessing your sites. There are plenty of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for instance, and generate fake visits and traffic. There are also spammers who leave links to questionable Internet sites as comments to website articles. This sort of things could drastically undermine your projects, since no one likes to visit a website with tons of fake comments, also the increased traffic from both spammers and bots can create high load on the web server where your Internet site is hosted, that can result in the site not functioning properly. One of the best solutions in cases like this is to block the IPs that generate the fake traffic, in order to be certain that the visits to your website are legitimate.

IP Blocking in Shared Website Hosting

Our shared website hosting provide an IP blocking tool, so in case you'd like to limit the access to your websites, you will be able to do this with only a couple of mouse clicks. The tool is provided with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all accounts and that's quite simple to use. Once you log in and visit the IP blocking section, you'll just have to choose a domain or a subdomain hosted inside the account and type in the IP address that should be blocked. Our system allows you to block entire networks too, so if you type in 123.123.123., for example, this shall block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your Internet sites. If you want to whitelist an IP at some point, you'll be able to unblock it with simply a click from the same section.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

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