From time to time you might need to block certain third parties from accessing your websites. There are a lot of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for example, and generate fake visits and traffic. There are also spammers who leave links to suspicious sites as comments to site articles. Such things may greatly undermine your work, simply because nobody likes to visit a site with many fake comments, not to mention that the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots can create high load on the server on which your Internet site is hosted, which may result in your site not working correctly. One of the best solutions in such cases is to block the IPs that create the fake traffic, in order to make sure that the visits to your Internet site are authentic.

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 can use the IP Blocking tool, that is incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Through a rather simple interface, you are able to prevent any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it requires to do that is to log within to your Control Panel, to navigate to the IP Blocking section, to select a specific domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You shall not have to do anything complicated if you wish to block an entire network - you'll simply have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot will 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 will be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with simply a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You'll be able to block IP addresses effortlessly and stop the unwanted traffic to any site hosted in a semi-dedicated server account with our company, because we offer a rather easy-to-use tool to do that, that is offered with our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Even if you have never addressed this kind of problems in the past, you shall not have any difficulties, as our tool includes a very user-friendly interface. As soon as you check out the IP blocking section of the Control Panel, you will find a complete list of all the domains and subdomains that you've added within the Hosted Domains section. All 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 in the box below. The change will take effect straightaway, so you'll not get any traffic from this address in the future. Removing an IP from the blocked list is just as quick.