Occasionally you may need to block specific third parties from accessing your websites. There are a number of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for example, and produce fake visits and website traffic. Additionally, there are spammers that leave links to suspicious Internet sites as comments to site articles. This type of things can greatly undermine your hard work, since no one likes to visit a site with many fake comments, also the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots could generate high load on the web server in which your site is hosted, that could result in the site not working properly. One of the best solutions in such a case is to block the IP addresses that produce the fake traffic, as a way to make sure that the visits to your site are legitimate.

IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting

If you have a cloud hosting account with our company and you want to block one or several IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, that's included in our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. By using a really simple interface, you can restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it takes to do that is to log within to your Control Panel, to check out the IP Blocking section, to select a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You simply won't have to do anything challenging if you want to block an entire network - you will just have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot will block the whole range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed within 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

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with our Linux semi-dedicated packages, will allow you to solve the challenge with unwanted traffic very quickly and easily. It includes an IP blocking tool where you could add IP addresses with several clicks. All domains and subdomains you have in the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only have to choose the one you need and then enter the IP address that should be blocked. If you would like to block a whole range, a C-class network for instance, you just have to type the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That shall block all 254 addresses, so you'll not have to type them by hand. Because all the IPs that you add in this section will be listed, you could very easily unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button relevant to the given IP.