From time to time you might need to block certain third parties from accessing your Internet sites. There are plenty of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for example, and create fake visits and traffic. In addition, there are spammers that leave links to shady Internet sites as comments to website articles. This sort of things may considerably undermine your hard work, simply because nobody likes to visit a site with tons of fake comments, not to mention that the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots may create high load on the server on which your site is hosted, which could result in your site not working properly. One of the best solutions in such a case is to block the IPs which produce the fake traffic, as a way to be sure that the visits to your website are legitimate.

IP Blocking in Website Hosting

If you buy a website hosting package from us, you will be able to see detailed traffic stats for all your Internet sites and if you notice that many of the visits to any of them are not authentic, you are able to block the IP addresses that have generated the most traffic via our IP Blocking tool. The interface is incredibly simple - select the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then input the IP address you want to block and save the change. All the addresses which you have blacklisted shall appear in the same exact section of the Control Panel, so you're able to always remove any of them and permit it to access your website again. You'll be able to block entire IP ranges through the tool too - 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 Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, provided with our Linux semi-dedicated hosting, will allow you to solve the issue with unwanted traffic very efficiently. It incorporates an IP blocking tool where you may add IP addresses with several mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains you have in the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you simply have to choose the one you need and then type in the IP address which should be blocked. If you want to block an entire range, a C-class network for example, you just need to type the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That shall block all 254 addresses, so you'll not need to input them manually. As all the IPs that you add in this section will be listed, you can easily unblock any of them by clicking the Delete button associated with the given IP.