Occasionally you might need to block specific third parties from accessing your websites. There are plenty of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for example, and create fake visits and site traffic. There's also spammers that leave links to shady websites as comments to website articles. This kind of things can significantly undermine your projects, because no one likes to visit a website with hundreds of fake comments, plus the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots could generate high load on the web server on which your Internet site is hosted, that could result in the site not functioning properly. One of the best solutions in such a case is to block the IP addresses that create the fake traffic, as a way to make sure that the visits to your site are legitimate.

IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool is included with the innovative Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all cloud hosting accounts. It'll permit you to block addresses with a few mouse clicks. No coding skills are needed, as you shall use an intuitive interface - you simply need to pick a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and enter the IP address that you would like to be blocked. You shall be able to see all the IP addresses that you have added in the very same section and whitelisting each of them shall take only a click. If you notice your site is being flooded by different IPs, you'll be able to block a whole IP range too. This can be done by omitting the last number of the address. For instance, if you need to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you simply have to input 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, provided with our Linux semi-dedicated hosting, will enable you to solve the matter with unwanted traffic very easily and quickly. It incorporates an IP blocking tool in which you may add IP addresses with just a couple of mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains that you have in the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only need to pick the one you need and then type in the IP address which should be blocked. If you wish to block an entire range, a C-class network for instance, you just need to type in the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That shall block all 254 addresses, so you'll not have to input them by hand. As all the IPs that you include in this section will be listed, you can very easily unblock any of them by clicking the Delete button relevant to the given IP.