From time to time you may need to block certain third parties from accessing your websites. There are a lot of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for example, and generate fake visits and website traffic. There are spammers that leave links to shady websites as comments to site articles. Such things could considerably undermine your work, simply because nobody likes to visit an Internet site with countless fake comments, also the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots could create high load on the server in which your website is hosted, which can result in your site not working properly. One of the best solutions in such a case is to block the IP addresses that create the fake traffic, so as to make sure that the visits to your site are legitimate.

IP Blocking in Cloud Website Hosting

Our cloud website hosting plans come with an IP blocking tool, so if you'd like to restrict the access to your websites, you will be able to do this with simply several mouse clicks. The tool is included with the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all accounts and that is quite simple to use. When you log in and visit the IP blocking section, you'll just have to pick a domain or a subdomain hosted inside the account and type the IP address that should be blocked. Our system will allow you to block whole networks also, so if you enter 123.123.123., for instance, this shall block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your websites. If you would like to whitelist an IP at some point, you may unblock it with a click from the same section.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated server account with us and you want to block one or numerous IP addresses at some point, you could take advantage of the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we have provided with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With a few clicks, you will be able to block particular IPs or entire ranges, if needed. All you shall need to do is choose any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, choose if the blocking needs to be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder which is part of the website, and then enter the IP address that you'd like to block. For an IP range, you just have to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address depending on the size of the network you want to block. All the addresses which you have restricted shall be listed in the same exact section and if you would like to whitelist any one of them, you shall be able to do it with a mouse click whenever you want.