From time to time you may need to block particular third parties from accessing your Internet sites. There are a number of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for example, and generate fake visits and traffic. There are spammers who leave links to shady websites as comments to website articles. This type of things may considerably undermine your projects, because no one likes to visit an Internet site with hundreds of fake comments, not to mention that the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots could create high load on the web server in which your Internet site is hosted, which could result in the site not functioning properly. Among the most effective solutions in such cases is to block the IP addresses that generate the fake traffic, so as to ensure that the visits to your website are real.

IP Blocking in Cloud Web Hosting

Our Linux cloud web hosting service offer an IP blocking tool, so if you'd like to limit the access to your sites, you'll be able to do so with only a few mouse clicks. The tool is provided with the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all accounts and which is very simple to use. When you log in and navigate to the IP blocking section, you shall just have to choose a domain or a subdomain hosted within the account and type the IP address which needs to be blocked. Our system allows you to block whole networks too, so if you input 123.123.123., for example, this shall block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your websites. If you would like to whitelist an IP at some point, you may unblock it with just a mouse click from the same section.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts feature a very simple-to-use IP blocking tool, which will allow you to restrict individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your sites with no more thana couple of mouse clicks and you won't have any difficulties to accomplish that even if that is your first web hosting account. As soon as you check out the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you'll only have to choose the domain or subdomain you want from a drop-down list, then enter the IP address within a box which you'll see there and you will be all set. To restrict the access for a whole network, you'll have to leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you enter 123.123. and do not type in anything within the third and fourth positions, our hosting server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.