Every now and then you might need to block particular third parties from accessing your websites. There are plenty of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for example, and produce fake visits and traffic. In addition, there are spammers that leave links to suspicious Internet sites as comments to site articles. This kind of things may significantly undermine your work, because nobody likes to visit a site with many fake comments, plus the increased traffic from both spammers and bots could generate high load on the server where your site is hosted, that can result in the site not working properly. Among the most effective solutions in such cases is to block the IP addresses which create the fake traffic, as a way to ensure that the visits to your website are real.

IP Blocking in Hosting

If you have a hosting account with our company and you would like to block one or several IP addresses, you may use the IP Blocking tool, that is included in our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. By using a rather simple interface, you'll be able to restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it takes to complete that is to log within to your CP, to navigate 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 complicated if you want to block a whole network - you'll just need to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot shall block the whole range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed inside the same exact section, so you'll be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with only a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

You will be able to block IP addresses effortlessly and stop the undesirable traffic to any Internet site hosted inside a semi-dedicated server account with our company, since we provide a very easy-to-use tool to do that, which is our Hepsia hosting CP. Even if you have not tackled this type of issues in the past, you won't have any difficulties, because our tool has a very user-friendly interface. When you visit the IP blocking section of the CP, you'll find a full list of all the domains and subdomains that you have added within the Hosted Domains section. What you need to do to block an IP address is choose the desired domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and input the IP inside the box below. The change will take effect instantly, so you will not get any traffic from this address in the future. Removing an IP from the blocked list is equally quick.