Every now and then you may need to block particular third parties from accessing your websites. There are a lot of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for instance, and create fake visits and site traffic. There are spammers who leave links to questionable Internet sites as comments to site articles. This sort of things may drastically undermine your work, as nobody likes to visit a site with many fake comments, not to mention that the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots can create high load on the web server where your website is hosted, that could result in your site not functioning properly. One of the best solutions in cases like this is to block the IP addresses that generate the fake traffic, as a way to make certain that the visits to your website are real.

IP Blocking in Hosting

If you purchase a hosting from us, you will be able to see detailed traffic statistics for all your websites and if you notice that a lot of the visits to any of them aren't legit, you can block the IP addresses that have produced the most traffic using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is really simple - pick the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then input the IP address that you would like to block and save the change. All the addresses that you have blacklisted will appear in the same section of the CP, so that you can always remove any one of them and permit it to access your site again. You could block whole IP ranges via the tool too - you simply need to leave 1 or 2 octets from the address blank. For instance, entering 1.2.3. will block all 254 IPs from 1.2.3.1 to 1.2.3.255.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you wish to block one or a number of IP addresses sooner or later, you can take advantage of the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we've included in our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With only several clicks, you'll be able to block particular IPs or entire ranges, if required. All you'll need to do is pick any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, choose if the blocking should be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that's part of the site, and then input the IP address that you want to block. For an IP range, you just have to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address depending on the size of the network which you want to block. All of the addresses you have restricted will be listed within the same exact section and if you would like to whitelist any of them, you will be able to do it with simply a mouse click anytime.