Every now and then you may have to block certain third parties from accessing your Internet sites. There are a number of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for example, and produce fake visits and traffic. There's also spammers that leave links to shady sites as comments to site articles. This sort of things can significantly undermine your hard work, simply because no one likes to visit a website with tons of fake comments, not to mention that the increased traffic from both spammers and bots could create high load on the web server where your Internet site is hosted, which may result in your site not working correctly. Among the most effective solutions in such cases is to block the IPs which create the fake traffic, as a way to ensure that the visits to your Internet site are legitimate.

IP Blocking in Cloud Website Hosting

If you have a cloud website hosting account with our company and you want to block one or several IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, which is incorporated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Through a rather simple interface, you can restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it takes to do that is to log in to your CP, to navigate to the IP Blocking section, to choose a specific domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You shall not need to do anything challenging if you want to block a whole network - you will just have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot will block the whole range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed inside the same section, so you'll be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with a click.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, included with our Linux semi-dedicated servers, will enable you to solve the problem with unwanted traffic very easily. It incorporates an IP blocking tool in which you may add IP addresses with only several clicks. All domains and subdomains you have inside the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only need to select the one you need and then input the IP address which needs to be blocked. If you want to block a whole range, a C-class network for example, you just have to input the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. This will block all 254 addresses, so you'll not need to type in them manually. Considering that all the IPs which you include in this section will be listed, you may very easily unblock any of them by clicking the Delete button associated with the particular IP.