Occasionally you may need to block specific third parties from accessing your Internet sites. There are plenty of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for example, and create fake visits and traffic. There's also spammers who leave links to shady websites as comments to website articles. This kind of things can considerably undermine your projects, because no one likes to visit an Internet site with hundreds of fake comments, not to mention that the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots could generate high load on the server in which your website is hosted, that could result in the site not working correctly. One of the best solutions in cases like this is to block the IPs which generate the fake traffic, as a way to be sure that the visits to your site are authentic.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

If you have a shared hosting account with us and you would like to block one or a number of IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, which is incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. By using a very simple interface, you'll be able to prevent any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it takes to do this is to log in to your CP, to check out the IP Blocking section, to select a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You'll not need to do anything complicated if you want to block a whole network - you'll just need to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot shall block the full range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed inside the very same section, so you'll be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with just a mouse click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our semi-dedicated server accounts include a really simple-to-use IP blocking tool, which will permit you to restrict individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your Internet sites with onlya few clicks and you will not have any difficulties to do that even if this is your first website hosting account. Once you go to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you will only need to choose the domain or subdomain you need from a drop-down list, then enter the IP address within a box that you will see there and you will be ready. To prohibit the access for an entire network, you have to leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you type 123.123. and do not input anything inside the third and fourth positions, our server shall deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.