Once in a while you might need to block specific third parties from accessing your websites. There are a number of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for instance, and create fake visits and website traffic. There are spammers that leave links to suspicious sites as comments to blog articles. Such things could significantly undermine your projects, because no one likes to visit an Internet site with hundreds of fake comments, furthermore the increased traffic from both spammers and bots can generate high load on the server on which your website is hosted, that can result in the site not working correctly. Among the most effective solutions in cases like this is to block the IPs which generate the fake traffic, as a way to make sure that the visits to your Internet site are real.

IP Blocking in Website Hosting

If you have a website hosting account with our company and you would like to block one or several IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, that is included in our in-house built Hepsia CP. Through a really simple interface, you'll be able to restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it takes to do that is to log inside to your Control Panel, to navigate to the IP Blocking section, to select a certain domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You shall not have to do anything challenging if you'd 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 full range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed in the very same section, so you'll be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with a click.