Once in a while you may need to block particular third parties from accessing your sites. There are plenty of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for example, and create fake visits and website traffic. In addition, there are spammers who leave links to questionable Internet sites as comments to website articles. This sort of things could considerably undermine your work, since no one likes to visit a site with many hundreds of fake comments, not to mention that the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots can create high load on the web server where your Internet site is hosted, which may result in your site not functioning properly. One of the best solutions in cases like this is to block the IPs that produce the fake traffic, as a way to make sure that the visits to your website are authentic.

IP Blocking in Web Hosting

If you have a web hosting account with our company and you would like to block one or several IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, that's incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Through a very simple interface, you could stop any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it takes to do this is to log within to your CP, to go to the IP Blocking section, to choose a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You simply won't have to do anything complicated if you would like to block an entire network - you'll just have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot will block the entire range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed within the exact same section, so you shall be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with only a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with our Linux semi-dedicated services, will permit you to solve the matter with unwanted traffic very easily and quickly. It includes an IP blocking tool in which you can add IP addresses with just a few mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains you have in the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only need to select the one you need and then type the IP address that has to be blocked. If you wish to block an entire range, a C-class network for instance, you simply need to enter the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. This shall block all 254 addresses, so you'll not have to enter them by hand. Because all the IPs you add in this section shall be listed, you could effortlessly unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button relevant to the given IP.