From time to time you may have to block certain third parties from accessing your Internet sites. There are a lot of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for instance, and produce fake visits and site traffic. Additionally, there are spammers who leave links to shady Internet sites as comments to site articles. This type of things could greatly undermine your hard work, since nobody likes to visit an Internet site with countless fake comments, also the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots could create high load on the server where your website is hosted, that can result in your site not working correctly. Among the most effective solutions in this case is to block the IP addresses which produce the fake traffic, in order to be certain that the visits to your site are legitimate.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

If you purchase a shared hosting from us, you will be able to see comprehensive traffic statistics for all your websites and if you notice that a large amount of the visits to any of them are not real, you'll be able to block the IP addresses that have created the most traffic through our IP Blocking tool. The interface is extremely simple - select the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then enter the IP address that you'd like to block and save the change. All the addresses that you've blacklisted will appear inside the exact same section of the Control Panel, so you can always remove any of them and allow it to access your website again. You'll be able to block entire IP ranges through the tool as well - you just need to leave 1 or 2 octets from the address blank. For instance, entering 1.2.3. will block all 254 IPs from 1.2.3.1 to 1.2.3.255.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts come with a really simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will enable you to restrict individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your websites with onlya couple of clicks and you will not have any troubles to achieve that even if this is your first hosting account. Once you check out the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia CP, you'll just have to pick the domain or subdomain in question from a drop-down list, then type the IP address inside a box that you'll see there and you will be ready. To restrict the access for a whole network, you'll have to leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you input 123.123. and don't input anything in the third and fourth positions, our hosting server shall deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.