Once in a while you might need to block specific third parties from accessing your sites. There are a number of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for instance, and generate fake visits and online traffic. Additionally, there are spammers who leave links to shady sites as comments to site articles. This type of things could drastically undermine your work, as nobody likes to visit a site with tons of fake comments, furthermore the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots could generate high load on the web server where your site is hosted, which could result in the site not working properly. Among the most effective solutions in cases like this is to block the IPs which create the fake traffic, so as to be sure that the visits to your website are legitimate.

IP Blocking in Shared Website Hosting

Our shared website hosting plans offer an IP blocking tool, so if you'd like to limit the access to your websites, it shall be able to do this with a couple of clicks. The tool is part of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all accounts and that is very easy to use. As soon as you log in and navigate to the IP blocking section, you shall just need to select a domain or a subdomain hosted within the account and type in the IP address that needs to be blocked. Our system enables you to block whole networks too, so if you enter 123.123.123., for instance, this will block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your Internet sites. If you want to whitelist an IP at some point, you'll be able to unblock it with a click from the same section.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts come with a really simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that'll enable you to prohibit individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your sites with justa few clicks and you will not have any difficulties to achieve that even if that is your first hosting account. Once you navigate to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia CP, you'll just have to pick the domain or subdomain you want from a drop-down list, then input the IP address inside a box which you'll see there and you will be good to go. To limit the access for a whole network, you must leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you input 123.123. and do not type in anything inside the third and fourth positions, our web server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.