Occasionally you may need to block certain third parties from accessing your Internet sites. There are a number of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for instance, and produce fake visits and website traffic. There are spammers who leave links to shady websites as comments to blog articles. This type of things can drastically undermine your projects, as no one likes to visit a site with many hundreds of fake comments, furthermore the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots can generate high load on the server on which your website is hosted, that can result in the site not working properly. One of the best solutions in this case is to block the IP addresses that create the fake traffic, in order to ensure that the visits to your website are authentic.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

If you get a shared hosting plan from our company, you'll be able to see in depth traffic stats for all your sites and if you notice that many of the visits to each of them are not legit, you can block the IP addresses that have generated the most traffic using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is incredibly simple - pick the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then input the IP address that you want to block and save the change. All the addresses that you've blacklisted will appear in the same section of the Control Panel, so you're able to always remove any of them and permit it to access your website again. You can block entire IP ranges via the tool too - you simply need to leave one or two octets from the address blank. For instance, entering 1.2.3. will block all 254 IPs from 1.2.3.1 to 1.2.3.255.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts come with a rather simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will enable you to restrict individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your sites with justa couple of mouse clicks and you won't have any issues to accomplish that even if that is your first website hosting account. Once you visit the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you'll only need to select the domain or subdomain you want from a drop-down list, then type the IP address in a box that you will see there and you will be good to go. To restrict the access for a whole network, you'll have to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you input 123.123. and do not enter anything inside the third and fourth positions, our hosting server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.