Once in a while you may need to block certain third parties from accessing your sites. There are a number of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for example, and produce fake visits and online traffic. There are spammers who leave links to questionable Internet sites as comments to blog articles. Such things could greatly undermine your hard work, because nobody likes to visit an Internet site with hundreds of fake comments, also the increased traffic from both spammers and bots could create high load on the server on which your site is hosted, which can result in your site not working properly. One of the best solutions in such cases is to block the IP addresses which create the fake traffic, as a way to make certain that the visits to your website are legitimate.

IP Blocking in Cloud Web Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool is included with the ground breaking Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all cloud web hosting accounts. It will allow you to block addresses with only a couple of mouse clicks. No coding skills are needed, due to the fact that you will use an intuitive interface - you just have to choose a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and enter the IP address that you'd like to be blocked. You will be able to see all the IP addresses that you've added within the same section and whitelisting any of them will take only a mouse click. If you notice that your Internet site is being flooded by numerous IPs, you shall be able to block an entire IP range as well. This can be completed 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 basically have to type in 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your websites within a semi-dedicated server account with us and you would like to block one or a few IP addresses sooner or later, you may take advantage of the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we've supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With simply a couple of clicks, you'll be able to block specific IPs or whole ranges, if needed. All you will need to do is choose any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, decide if the blocking needs to be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that is part of the Internet site, and then type in the IP address you want to block. For an IP range, you just need to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address based on the size of the network you want to block. Each of the addresses that you've restricted shall be listed inside the same section and if you would like to whitelist any one of them, you shall be able to do it with simply a click whenever you want.