Every now and then you may need to block specific third parties from accessing your websites. There are plenty of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for example, and create fake visits and traffic. In addition, there are spammers that leave links to shady Internet sites as comments to blog articles. Such things could significantly undermine your projects, as no one likes to visit a site with countless fake comments, furthermore the increased traffic from both spammers and bots can generate high load on the server in which your Internet site is hosted, that can result in the site not working properly. Among the most effective solutions in such a case is to block the IPs which generate the fake traffic, as a way to make certain that the visits to your site are authentic.

IP Blocking in Cloud Website Hosting

If you purchase a cloud website hosting plan from our company, you will be able to see in depth traffic stats for all of your Internet sites and if you notice that a large amount of the visits to each of them are not legit, you can block the IP addresses which have produced the most traffic via our IP Blocking tool. The interface is really simple - select the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then type the IP address that you want to block and save the change. All the addresses which you have blacklisted will show up inside the same exact section of the CP, allowing you to always remove any of them and allow it to access your Internet site again. You are able to block whole IP ranges via the tool also - you simply need to leave 1 or 2 octets from the address blank. For 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 Servers

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with our semi-dedicated hosting plans, will enable you to solve the matter with unwanted traffic very quickly and easily. It features an IP blocking tool where you may add IP addresses with only a few clicks. All domains and subdomains that you have within the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only have to choose the one you need and then type in the IP address which has to be blocked. If you want to block an entire range, a C-class network for example, you simply need to enter the first 3 octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That will block all 254 addresses, so you will not need to input them manually. As all the IPs that you add in this section will be listed, you could easily unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button associated with the particular IP.