Occasionally you might need to block specific third parties from accessing your websites. There are plenty of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for example, and produce fake visits and online traffic. Additionally, there are spammers who leave links to suspicious sites as comments to site articles. This type of things could drastically undermine your work, as no one likes to visit a website with many hundreds of fake comments, furthermore the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots could generate high load on the server on which your website is hosted, which can result in your site not functioning properly. One of the best solutions in such cases is to block the IPs that create the fake traffic, in order to make sure that the visits to your site are authentic.

IP Blocking in Cloud Web Hosting

If you have a cloud web hosting account with us and you wish to block one or several IP addresses, you may use the IP Blocking tool, that's integrated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. Through a pretty simple interface, you are able to prevent any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it takes to complete that is to log inside to your Control Panel, to check out the IP Blocking section, to choose a specific domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You won't need to do anything challenging if you'd like to block an entire network - you'll just have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot will block the entire range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed inside the very same section, so you'll be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with just a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, provided with our Linux semi-dedicated hosting, will enable you to solve the problem with unwanted traffic very efficiently. It comes with an IP blocking tool in which you could add IP addresses with just several mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains which you have inside the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you just need to pick the one you need and then enter the IP address that should be blocked. If you wish to block an entire 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 shall not need to type in them by hand. Because all the IPs which you include in this section shall be listed, you may easily unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button related to the given IP.