From time to time you may have to block specific third parties from accessing your Internet sites. There are plenty of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for instance, and generate fake visits and site traffic. Additionally, there are spammers that leave links to shady Internet sites as comments to website articles. Such things can considerably undermine your projects, because no one likes to visit a website with countless fake comments, also the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots could generate high load on the web server where your site is hosted, which can result in your site not working correctly. Among the most effective solutions in such cases is to block the IPs which produce the fake traffic, in order to be sure that the visits to your website are authentic.

IP Blocking in Shared Web Hosting

Our shared web hosting plans offer an IP blocking tool, so in case you would like to limit the access to your Internet sites, you'll be able to do this with simply a few mouse clicks. The tool is included with the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all accounts and which is super easy to use. Once you log in and go to the IP blocking section, you'll just have to select 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 whole networks too, so if you type 123.123.123., for example, this will block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your Internet sites. In case you wish to whitelist an IP at some point, you'll be able to unblock it with a click from the same section.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts come with a very simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will allow you to prohibit individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your Internet sites with simplya couple of clicks and you shall not have any difficulties to accomplish that even if that is your first hosting account. Once you check out the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you'll just need to select the domain or subdomain you need from a drop-down list, then type in the IP address within a box that you will see there and you will be ready. To restrict the access for a whole network, you must leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you input 123.123. and do not enter anything in 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.