Once in a while you might need to block certain third parties from accessing your Internet sites. There are a lot of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for instance, and create fake visits and traffic. There are also spammers who leave links to questionable Internet sites as comments to site articles. This sort of things could drastically undermine your projects, because nobody likes to visit an Internet site with tons of fake comments, also the increased traffic from both spammers and bots can generate high load on the web server where your website is hosted, which can result in your site not functioning properly. One of the best solutions in this case is to block the IP addresses which produce the fake traffic, in order to make sure that the visits to your Internet site are legitimate.

IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting

Our cloud plans come with an IP blocking tool, so if you want to limit the access to your Internet sites, it shall be able to do so with a few clicks. The tool is part of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all accounts and which is quite simple to use. As soon as you log in and navigate to the IP blocking section, you shall just have to pick a domain or a subdomain hosted in the account and type the IP address which should be blocked. Our system will permit you to block entire networks also, so if you type 123.123.123., for example, this'll block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your websites. In case you would like to whitelist an IP at some point, you'll be able to unblock it with a mouse click from the same section.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your sites inside a semi-dedicated server account with us and you want to block one or several IP addresses sooner or later, you could use the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we've provided with our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With several mouse clicks, you will be able to block individual IPs or whole ranges, if necessary. All you shall have to do is choose any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, decide if the blocking should be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that is part of the website, and then enter the IP address you want to block. For an IP range, you simply need to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address based on the size of the network that you want to block. All of the addresses that you have restricted will be listed in the exact same section and if you want to whitelist any of them, you will be able to do it with simply a click anytime.