Every now and then you may have to block certain third parties from accessing your sites. There are a lot of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for instance, and produce fake visits and online traffic. There's also spammers that leave links to shady sites as comments to site articles. This type of things can significantly undermine your projects, since no one likes to visit an Internet site with many hundreds of fake comments, not to mention that the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots could generate high load on the web server where your Internet site is hosted, which could result in the site not working properly. Among the most effective solutions in such cases is to block the IPs which produce the fake traffic, in order to be certain that the visits to your site are real.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

Our shared hosting plans provide an IP blocking tool, so in case you'd like to limit the access to your Internet sites, you'll be able to do so with just a couple of clicks. The tool is included with the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all accounts and that's very easy to use. As soon as you log in and visit the IP blocking section, you shall just have to choose a domain or a subdomain hosted inside the account and input the IP address which needs to be blocked. Our system will allow you to block whole networks also, so if you enter 123.123.123., for instance, this shall block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your sites. In case you wish to whitelist an IP at some point, you could unblock it with a mouse click from the same section.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

You'll be able to block IP addresses effortlessly and stop the unwanted traffic to any website hosted in a semi-dedicated server account with us, considering the fact that we offer you a rather easy-to-use tool to do that, that is provided with our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Even if you haven't addressed this type of problems in the past, you'll not have any difficulties, as our tool includes a very user-friendly interface. As soon as you go to the IP blocking section of the CP, you shall find a comprehensive list of all the domains and subdomains which you have added inside the Hosted Domains section. All you should do to block an IP address is choose the desired domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then input the IP in the box below. The change shall take effect immediately, so you'll not get any traffic from this address in the future. Taking away an IP from the blocked list is just as uncomplicated.