From time to time you may have to block specific third parties from accessing your Internet sites. There are a number of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for instance, and generate fake visits and website traffic. Additionally, there are spammers that leave links to questionable sites as comments to website articles. This sort of things can significantly undermine your hard work, as nobody likes to visit a site with many fake comments, also the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots may 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 IPs that generate the fake traffic, so as to make certain that the visits to your website are real.

IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool is included with the innovative Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all cloud hosting accounts. It shall allow you to block addresses with simply a few clicks. No coding abilities are needed, since you'll use an intuitive interface - you just have to select a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and enter the IP address you want to be blocked. You'll be able to see all the IP addresses that you've added in the same section and whitelisting each of them will take simply a mouse click. If you notice that your Internet site is being flooded by various IPs, you will be able to block an entire IP range too. This may be done by omitting the last number of the address. For example, if you would like to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you basically need to enter 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with our Linux semi-dedicated servers, will allow you to solve the problem with unwanted traffic very efficiently. It comes with an IP blocking tool where you may add IP addresses with a couple of mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains you have in the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only have to pick the one you need and then input the IP address that should be blocked. If you wish to block an entire range, a C-class network for example, you simply need to enter the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That will block all 254 addresses, so you will not need to enter them by hand. Since all the IPs you include in this section will be listed, you could quickly unblock any of them by clicking the Delete button related to the particular IP.