From time to time you may need to block specific third parties from accessing your websites. There are plenty of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for example, and generate fake visits and online traffic. There are spammers that leave links to suspicious websites as comments to blog articles. Such things can considerably undermine your hard work, as no one likes to visit a site with many hundreds of fake comments, also the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots could generate high load on the server on which your site is hosted, that could result in your site not working correctly. One of the best solutions in cases like this is to block the IP addresses that produce the fake traffic, in order to be sure that the visits to your website are real.

IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting

Our Linux cloud packages provide an IP blocking tool, so if you would like to restrict the access to your Internet sites, you'll be able to do this with just a couple of mouse clicks. The tool is part of the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all accounts and that is a breeze to use. As you log in and check out the IP blocking section, you shall just need to choose a domain or a subdomain hosted within the account and type in the IP address which needs to be blocked. Our system will permit you to block entire networks also, so if you enter 123.123.123., for instance, this shall block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your sites. If you would like to whitelist an IP at some point, you could unblock it with just a mouse click from the same section.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your websites within a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you wish to block one or a few IP addresses eventually, you may leverage the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we've supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With only a few mouse clicks, you'll be able to block particular IPs or whole ranges, if needed. All you shall need to do is pick out any 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 type the IP address that 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 that you want to block. All the addresses you have restricted shall be listed inside the same section and if you would like to whitelist any one of them, you'll be able to do it with simply a click whenever you want.