Every now and then 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 create fake visits and online traffic. There's also spammers who leave links to questionable Internet sites as comments to website articles. This type of things could drastically undermine your work, as no one likes to visit a website with countless fake comments, also the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots can create high load on the web server in which your Internet site is hosted, which could result in the site not working properly. One of the best solutions in such a case is to block the IP addresses which generate the fake traffic, so as to make certain that the visits to your site are real.

IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting

If you order a cloud hosting plan from our company, you will be able to see in depth traffic stats for all of your websites and if you notice that many of the visits to any of them aren't authentic, you may block the IP addresses which have produced the most traffic using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is extremely simple - select the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then type the IP address that you want to block and save the change. All the addresses that you've blacklisted shall appear in the same section of the CP, so that you can always remove any of them and allow it to access your website again. You could block entire IP ranges through the tool as well - you simply need to leave 1 or 2 octets from the address blank. As an 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 Servers

The Hepsia hosting CP, offered with our semi-dedicated servers, will allow you to solve the problem with unwanted traffic very easily. It includes an IP blocking tool where you may add IP addresses with several clicks. All domains and subdomains you have in the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you simply have to choose the one you need and then type in the IP address that has to be blocked. If you wish to block a whole range, a C-class network for instance, you simply need to enter the first 3 octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That shall block all 254 addresses, so you'll not need to type them by hand. As all the IPs that you add in this section shall be listed, you may effortlessly unblock any of them by clicking the Delete button relevant to the particular IP.