From time to time you may have to block particular third parties from accessing your websites. There are plenty of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for instance, and generate fake visits and online traffic. In addition, there are spammers that leave links to suspicious websites as comments to site articles. This kind of things could significantly undermine your work, since no one likes to visit a site with many fake comments, plus the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots could create high load on the server on which your site is hosted, which can result in the site not working correctly. Among the most effective solutions in such a case is to block the IPs which create the fake traffic, so as to make sure that the visits to your Internet site are legitimate.

IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool is part of the ground breaking Hepsia hosting Control Panel, offered with all cloud hosting accounts. It'll allow you to block addresses with simply a couple of mouse clicks. No coding skills are needed, as you shall use an intuitive interface - you just need to pick a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type in the IP address you want to be blocked. You will be able to see all the IP addresses you have added inside the same section and whitelisting any of them shall take just a click. If you notice your Internet site is being flooded by different IPs, you'll be able to block an entire IP range too. This can be performed by omitting the last number of the address. For instance, if you want to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you just have to enter 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting CP, provided with our Linux semi-dedicated servers, will enable you to solve the challenge with unwanted traffic very efficiently. It features an IP blocking tool where you may add IP addresses with only several clicks. All domains and subdomains which you have in the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only have to select the one you need and then type the IP address that needs to be blocked. If you want to block an entire range, a C-class network for example, you just need to enter the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. This shall block all 254 addresses, so you'll not need to type them manually. Because all the IPs you include in this section will be listed, you can quickly unblock any of them by clicking the Delete button relevant to the given IP.