From time to time you may have to block particular third parties from accessing your sites. There are plenty of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for instance, and create fake visits and website traffic. In addition, there are spammers who leave links to questionable Internet sites as comments to site articles. This kind of things can greatly undermine your hard work, because nobody likes to visit a website with many fake comments, not to mention that the increased traffic from both spammers and bots can generate high load on the web server where your website is hosted, that could result in the site not working correctly. Among the most effective solutions in such a case is to block the IP addresses that generate the fake traffic, in order to make certain that the visits to your website are authentic.

IP Blocking in Cloud Web Hosting

Our cloud web hosting come with an IP blocking tool, so in case you'd like to limit the access to your websites, you will be able to do this with several mouse clicks. The tool is part of the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all accounts and that is a breeze to use. As you log in and navigate to the IP blocking section, you'll just have to choose a domain or a subdomain hosted in the account and type in the IP address which needs to be blocked. Our system will enable you to block entire networks too, so if you type in 123.123.123., for example, this'll 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 can unblock it with a click from the same section.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your sites within a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you wish to block one or a few IP addresses eventually, you could take advantage of the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we have provided with our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With only a couple of clicks, you'll be able to block specific IPs or whole ranges, if needed. All you shall need to do is choose any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, select if the blocking should be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that's part of the site, and then enter the IP address that you'd like to block. For an IP range, you only have to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address depending on the size of the network which you want to block. Each of the addresses that you've restricted shall be listed inside the very same section and if you wish to whitelist any one of them, you will be able to do it with just a click anytime.