Once in a while you may have to block certain 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 who leave links to questionable Internet sites as comments to site articles. This type of things can greatly undermine your projects, as nobody likes to visit a site with many fake comments, furthermore the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots could generate high load on the server on which your website is hosted, which can result in your site not working properly. Among the most effective solutions in such cases is to block the IP addresses that produce the fake traffic, so as to ensure that the visits to your site are authentic.

IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting account with us and you wish to block one or a number of IP addresses, you may use the IP Blocking tool, that is integrated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. Using a rather simple interface, you can prevent any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it requires to perform that is to log within to your CP, to navigate to the IP Blocking section, to choose a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You simply won't need to do anything challenging if you wish to block a whole network - you will simply have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot will block the entire range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed in the very same section, so you will be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, provided with our Linux semi-dedicated packages, will permit you to solve the matter with unwanted traffic very easily and quickly. It includes an IP blocking tool where you may add IP addresses with only several clicks. All domains and subdomains which you have within the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only need to choose the one you need and then input the IP address which has to be blocked. If you want to block an entire range, a C-class network for instance, you just have to type in the first 3 octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. This shall block all 254 addresses, so you will not have to input them manually. Considering that all the IPs that you add in this section shall be listed, you could quickly unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button related to the given IP.