From time to time you may need to block specific third parties from accessing your sites. There are a number of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for example, and create fake visits and website traffic. There are also spammers who leave links to shady Internet sites as comments to website articles. This kind of things may significantly undermine your projects, simply because nobody likes to visit a website with countless fake comments, not to mention that the increased traffic from both spammers and bots can generate high load on the web server in which your Internet site is hosted, which could result in the site not working properly. One of the best solutions in such cases is to block the IPs which generate the fake traffic, so as to make certain that the visits to your Internet site are real.

IP Blocking in Shared Web Hosting

Our shared web hosting offer an IP blocking tool, so in case you want to limit the access to your websites, you will be able to do so with just a few clicks. The tool is included with the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all accounts and which is very easy to use. When you log in and check out the IP blocking section, you will just need to select a domain or a subdomain hosted in the account and type in the IP address that needs to be blocked. Our system will enable you to block entire networks also, so if you enter 123.123.123., for example, this will block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your sites. If you want to whitelist an IP at some point, you may unblock it with simply a mouse click from the same section.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your Internet sites inside a semi-dedicated server account with us and you need to block one or a number of IP addresses eventually, you are able to benefit from the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we have included in our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With just several clicks, you shall be able to block certain IPs or entire ranges, if necessary. All you will need to do is pick any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, decide if the blocking should be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that's part of the Internet site, and then input the IP address that you want to block. For an IP range, you simply have to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address based on the size of the network that you want to block. Each of the addresses that you have restricted will be listed inside the same section and if you would like to whitelist any of them, you'll be able to do it with just a mouse click anytime.