Once in a while you might need to block particular third parties from accessing your sites. There are a number of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for instance, and create fake visits and site traffic. There are spammers who leave links to questionable sites as comments to website articles. Such things can significantly undermine your projects, since no one likes to visit an Internet site with many hundreds of fake comments, plus the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots may create high load on the web server where your website is hosted, which could result in the site not working correctly. Among the most effective solutions in such cases is to block the IP addresses which create the fake traffic, as a way to be sure that the visits to your website are real.

IP Blocking in Web Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool comes with the innovative Hepsia hosting Control Panel, offered with all web hosting accounts. It'll enable you to block addresses with several clicks. No coding skills are necessary, due to the fact that you will use an intuitive interface - you simply need to select a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and input the IP address you want to be blocked. You'll be able to see all the IP addresses that you've added inside the exact same section and whitelisting any of them will take only a mouse click. If you notice that your Internet site is being flooded by numerous IPs, you'll be able to block an entire IP range also. This may be completed by omitting the last number of the address. For instance, if you wish to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you just have to input 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your websites within a semi-dedicated server account with us and you wish to block one or several IP addresses at some point, you are able to leverage the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we have supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With a couple of mouse clicks, you shall be able to block individual IPs or entire ranges, if needed. All you'll have to do is select any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, decide if the blocking must be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that is part of the Internet site, and then enter the IP address that you want to block. For an IP range, you only need to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address in accordance with the size of the network that you want to block. All of the addresses which you have restricted shall be listed inside the very same section and if you would like to whitelist any of them, you will be able to do it with simply a click at any time.