Every now and then you might need to block particular third parties from accessing your Internet sites. There are a number of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for instance, and produce fake visits and online traffic. Additionally, there are spammers that leave links to suspicious sites as comments to site articles. This type of things could drastically undermine your projects, because no one likes to visit a website with many hundreds of fake comments, furthermore the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots may create high load on the web server on which your Internet site is hosted, which could result in the site not working correctly. Among the most effective solutions in such cases is to block the IP addresses that generate the fake traffic, so as to make certain that the visits to your site are authentic.

IP Blocking in Hosting

If you have a hosting account with us and you want to block one or a number of IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, that's included in our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Using a really simple interface, you are able to stop any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it requires to complete this is to log within to your CP, to visit the IP Blocking section, to pick a specific domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You shall not have to do anything complex if you would like to block an entire network - you'll just have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot shall block the entire range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed within the same section, so you will be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with simply a mouse click.