Every now and then you may have to block certain third parties from accessing your Internet sites. There are a lot of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for instance, and generate fake visits and traffic. There are spammers that leave links to shady Internet sites as comments to site articles. This type of things could significantly undermine your projects, because nobody likes to visit a website with tons of fake comments, not to mention that the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots could generate high load on the server where your site is hosted, which could result in your site not working correctly. One of the best solutions in such cases is to block the IP addresses that create the fake traffic, as a way to make certain that the visits to your Internet site are authentic.

IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting

Our Linux cloud packages come with an IP blocking tool, so if you want to limit the access to your websites, it shall be able to do this with only several mouse clicks. The tool is included with the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all accounts and that's quite simple to use. As soon as you log in and navigate to the IP blocking section, you'll just have to pick a domain or a subdomain hosted in the account and input the IP address that should be blocked. Our system allows you to block whole networks too, so if you type 123.123.123., for example, this'll 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 could unblock it with a mouse click from the same section.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our semi-dedicated server accounts feature a rather simple-to-use IP blocking tool, which will allow you to restrict individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your websites with no more thana couple of mouse clicks and you won't have any troubles to achieve that even if that's your first web hosting account. When you go to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia CP, you'll just have to choose the domain or subdomain you want from a drop-down list, then type the IP address inside a box which you'll 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 instance, if you enter 123.123. and do not type in anything in the third and fourth positions, our web server shall deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.