Every now and then you may need to block certain third parties from accessing your sites. There are a lot of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for example, and generate fake visits and traffic. In addition, there are spammers who leave links to suspicious Internet sites as comments to site articles. Such things may significantly undermine your work, as no one likes to visit a site with hundreds of fake comments, also the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots could generate high load on the server in which your site is hosted, that can result in the site not functioning properly. Among the most effective solutions in such cases is to block the IP addresses which generate the fake traffic, so as to ensure that the visits to your site are legitimate.

IP Blocking in Hosting

If you order a Linux hosting package from our company, you will be able to see detailed traffic statistics for all of your sites and if you notice that a large amount of the visits to each of them aren't authentic, you may block the IP addresses which have produced the most traffic via our IP Blocking tool. The interface is incredibly simple - pick 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 of the addresses you have blacklisted shall appear inside the same section of the Control Panel, so that you can always remove any of them and enable it to access your website again. You can block entire IP ranges through the tool also - you just need to leave 1 or 2 octets from the address blank. For example, entering 1.2.3. will block all 254 IPs from 1.2.3.1 to 1.2.3.255.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

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