Every now and then you may need to block specific third parties from accessing your websites. There are a number of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for instance, and produce fake visits and traffic. Additionally, there are spammers who leave links to shady sites as comments to website articles. This sort of things may considerably undermine your projects, as no one likes to visit a site with hundreds of fake comments, plus the increased traffic from both spammers and bots could generate high load on the web server where your website is hosted, which could result in your site not working correctly. Among the most effective solutions in cases like this is to block the IP addresses that produce the fake traffic, so as to make sure that the visits to your website are authentic.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool comes with the revolutionary Hepsia hosting CP, provided with all shared hosting accounts. It will enable you to block addresses with only a few clicks. No coding skills are necessary, since you'll use an intuitive interface - you just have to choose a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type the IP address you want to be blocked. You shall be able to see all the IP addresses that you've added in the exact same section and whitelisting any of them shall take only a click. If you notice that your site is being flooded by various IPs, you will be able to block a whole IP range too. This could be performed by omitting the last number of the address. For instance, if you would like to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you only need to input 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with our Linux semi-dedicated services, will allow you to solve the challenge with unwanted traffic very easily and quickly. It includes an IP blocking tool where you may add IP addresses with several mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains that you have inside the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you simply have to select the one you need and then type the IP address that has to be blocked. If you wish to block a whole range, a C-class network for example, you just have to enter the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. This shall block all 254 addresses, so you shall not need to enter them by hand. Because all the IPs you include in this section will be listed, you can very easily unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button associated with the particular IP.