Occasionally you may need to block particular third parties from accessing your websites. There are a lot of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for instance, and create fake visits and online traffic. There are spammers who leave links to shady sites as comments to site articles. This sort of things could drastically undermine your projects, because no one likes to visit an Internet site with hundreds of fake comments, plus the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots could generate high load on the server where your site is hosted, which can result in the site not functioning properly. One of the best solutions in cases like this is to block the IP addresses that produce the fake traffic, as a way to be sure that the visits to your Internet site are authentic.

IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting

Our cloud hosting include an IP blocking tool, so if you would like to restrict the access to your sites, it shall be able to do this with only a few clicks. The tool is part of the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all accounts and that's a breeze to use. When you log in and check out the IP blocking section, you shall just have to select a domain or a subdomain hosted in the account and input the IP address which should be blocked. Our system enables you to block entire networks too, so if you enter 123.123.123., for example, this shall block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your sites. If you wish to whitelist an IP at some point, you could unblock it with a click from the same section.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your sites in a semi-dedicated server account with us and you need to block one or numerous IP addresses at some point, you can use the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we have supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With several mouse clicks, you'll be able to block specific IPs or entire ranges, if necessary. All you will need to do is pick out any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, choose if the blocking needs to be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that is part of the Internet site, and then input 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 in accordance with the size of the network that you want to block. All the addresses that you have restricted shall be listed within the very same section and if you want to whitelist any of them, you will be able to do it with only a mouse click at any time.