Every now and then you might need to block particular third parties from accessing your sites. There are a number of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for instance, and create fake visits and website traffic. There are also spammers that leave links to suspicious Internet sites as comments to blog articles. This sort of things can considerably undermine your projects, simply because no one likes to visit an Internet site with hundreds of fake comments, furthermore the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots may generate high load on the server on which your site is hosted, that can result in the site not working correctly. Among the most effective solutions in such a case is to block the IP addresses which produce the fake traffic, so as to make sure that the visits to your site are authentic.

IP Blocking in Website Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool is part of the innovative Hepsia hosting Control Panel, provided with all website hosting accounts. It'll permit you to block addresses with simply a few mouse clicks. No coding skills are necessary, due to the fact that you will use an intuitive interface - you need to simply pick a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type the IP address that you want to be blocked. You will be able to see all the IP addresses that you've added in the very same section and whitelisting any of them will take simply a click. If you notice that your site is being flooded by various IPs, you shall be able to block an entire IP range too. This can be done by omitting the last number of the address. For example, if you wish to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you just need to input 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your websites inside a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you want to block one or a few IP addresses at some point, you could benefit from the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we've supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With only a few mouse clicks, you'll be able to block certain IPs or whole ranges, if necessary. All you shall need to do is pick out any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, select if the blocking must be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder which is part of the Internet site, and then input the IP address that you would like to block. For an IP range, you only need to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address depending on the size of the network that you want to block. Each of the addresses that you have restricted shall be listed within the same section and if you wish to whitelist any one of them, you will be able to do it with simply a mouse click anytime.