Once in a while you may need to block specific third parties from accessing your sites. There are plenty of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for example, and produce fake visits and online traffic. There's also spammers who leave links to questionable websites as comments to website articles. This type of things may greatly undermine your work, since no one likes to visit a website with many hundreds of fake comments, furthermore the increased traffic from both spammers and bots could create high load on the server in which your website is hosted, which may result in your site not working correctly. Among the most effective solutions in such cases is to block the IPs which generate the fake traffic, as a way to make sure that the visits to your Internet site are real.

IP Blocking in Cloud Web Hosting

If you have a cloud web hosting account with our company and you want to block one or a few IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, which is integrated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. Using a very simple interface, you could prevent any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it takes to complete this is to log in to your Control Panel, to check out the IP Blocking section, to pick a specific domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You shall not have to do anything challenging if you would like to block an entire network - you'll just have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot will block the full range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed in the exact same section, so you'll be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with just a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, offered with our Linux semi-dedicated hosting packages, will permit you to solve the issue with unwanted traffic very quickly and easily. It incorporates an IP blocking tool in which you can add IP addresses with a couple of clicks. All domains and subdomains you have within the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only need to select the one you need and then enter the IP address which has to be blocked. If you would like to block an entire range, a C-class network for example, you just need to input the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That shall block all 254 addresses, so you'll not need to type them manually. As all the IPs that you include in this section shall be listed, you may quickly unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button associated with the particular IP.