Occasionally you may need to block certain third parties from accessing your websites. There are a lot of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for instance, and generate fake visits and website traffic. Additionally, there are spammers that leave links to suspicious Internet sites as comments to site articles. This kind of things can drastically undermine your work, since nobody likes to visit a website with many fake comments, plus the increased traffic from both spammers and bots can generate high load on the server in which your site is hosted, that could result in the site not functioning properly. Among the most effective solutions in cases like this is to block the IPs that generate the fake traffic, in order to make sure that the visits to your Internet site are legitimate.

IP Blocking in Shared Web Hosting

If you get a shared web hosting from us, you will be able to see detailed traffic statistics for all your sites and if you notice that a considerable amount of the visits to each of them are not real, you'll be able to block the IP addresses which have produced the most traffic via our IP Blocking tool. The interface is very simple - pick the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then input the IP address that you want to block and save the change. All of the addresses that you've blacklisted will appear inside the exact same section of the CP, allowing you to always remove any of them and permit it to access your website again. You are able to block whole IP ranges via the tool too - you simply 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

The Hepsia hosting CP, offered with our Linux semi-dedicated packages, will allow you to solve the issue with unwanted traffic very easily and quickly. It comes with an IP blocking tool in which you could add IP addresses with a few mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains you have in the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only need to pick the one you need and then type the IP address that has to be blocked. If you would like to block a whole range, a C-class network for example, you just have to enter the first 3 octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That will block all 254 addresses, so you'll not have to type in them manually. Because all the IPs which you add in this section shall be listed, you could very easily unblock any of them by clicking the Delete button associated with the given IP.