From time to time you might need to block specific third parties from accessing your sites. There are a lot of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for instance, and produce fake visits and traffic. In addition, there are spammers who leave links to questionable sites as comments to website articles. This sort of things may significantly undermine your hard work, as no one likes to visit a site with countless fake comments, plus the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots may create high load on the server in which your site is hosted, that could result in the site not working properly. Among the most effective solutions in such cases is to block the IP addresses that produce the fake traffic, in order to be certain that the visits to your website are real.

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 integrated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. By using a very simple interface, you could restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it takes to complete this is to log within to your Control Panel, to go to the IP Blocking section, to pick a certain domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You will not have to do anything challenging if you'd like to block a whole network - you will just need 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 inside the exact same section, so you will be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with only a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts feature a really simple-to-use IP blocking tool, which will permit you to restrict individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your websites with simplya couple of mouse clicks and you will not have any issues to do that even if this is your first hosting account. When you check out the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you will just need to choose the domain or subdomain in question from a drop-down list, then input the IP address within a box which you'll see there and you will be all set. To prohibit the access for a whole network, you have to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you input 123.123. and don't input anything within the third and fourth positions, our web server shall deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.