Once in a while you may have to block specific third parties from accessing your sites. There are a lot of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for example, and create fake visits and online traffic. There's also spammers who leave links to shady websites as comments to blog articles. Such things can greatly undermine your work, as no one likes to visit an Internet site with tons of fake comments, plus the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots can create high load on the web server in which your site is hosted, that could result in your site not functioning properly. One of the best solutions in such a case is to block the IPs that generate the fake traffic, so as to be certain that the visits to your website are real.

IP Blocking in Cloud Website Hosting

If you order a Linux cloud website hosting from us, you'll be able to see detailed traffic stats for all your sites and if you notice that many of the visits to each of them are not legit, you could block the IP addresses which have created the most traffic by using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is really simple - select the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then type in the IP address that you'd like to block and save the change. All the addresses which you have blacklisted will show up in the exact same section of the Control Panel, allowing you to always remove any of them and enable it to access your site again. You'll be able to block whole IP ranges through the tool also - you just have to leave one or two 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

Our semi-dedicated server accounts feature a quite simple-to-use IP blocking tool, which will enable you to prohibit individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your websites with no more thana couple of mouse clicks and you won't have any issues to accomplish that even if this is your first website hosting account. Once you visit the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you will just have to choose the domain or subdomain you need from a drop-down list, then enter the IP address inside a box that you will see there and you will be all set. To prohibit the access for an entire network, you'll have to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you type 123.123. and don't enter anything within 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.