Every now and then you may need to block specific third parties from accessing your sites. There are a number of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for instance, and generate fake visits and traffic. Additionally, there are spammers that leave links to suspicious sites as comments to website articles. Such things could considerably undermine your hard work, because no one likes to visit an Internet site with many fake comments, furthermore the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots can generate high load on the server in which your site is hosted, that could result in your site not working correctly. One of the best solutions in such cases is to block the IP addresses which generate the fake traffic, as a way to be sure that the visits to your site are real.

IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting

If you order a cloud hosting from our company, you will be able to see comprehensive traffic statistics for all your sites and if you notice that a lot of the visits to any of them are not legit, you'll be able to block the IP addresses which have created the most traffic through our IP Blocking tool. The interface is incredibly simple - choose the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then type the IP address that you would like to block and save the change. All of the addresses you have blacklisted will appear in the very same section of the CP, so you can always remove any one of them and permit it to access your site again. You'll be able to block entire IP ranges through the tool as well - you just have to leave 1 or 2 octets from the address blank. As an example, entering 1.2.3. will block all 254 IPs from 1.2.3.1 to 1.2.3.255.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our semi-dedicated server accounts include a very simple-to-use IP blocking tool, which will allow you to restrict individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your websites with no more thana couple of clicks and you won't have any problems to do that even if this is your first web hosting account. As soon as you navigate to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia CP, you'll only have to select the domain or subdomain in question from a drop-down list, then type the IP address inside a box that you'll see there and you will be all set. To limit the access for a whole network, you will need to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you input 123.123. and don't enter anything inside the third and fourth positions, our hosting server shall deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.