Occasionally you may need to block specific 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. There are also spammers who leave links to shady websites as comments to blog articles. This type of things may considerably undermine your work, because no one likes to visit a website with many hundreds of fake comments, also the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots can generate high load on the web server in which your Internet site is hosted, which may result in the site not working properly. One of the best solutions in such cases is to block the IPs that produce the fake traffic, in order to make sure that the visits to your Internet site are legitimate.

IP Blocking in Website Hosting

If you have a website hosting account with us and you wish to block one or a number of IP addresses, you may use the IP Blocking tool, that is included in our in-house built Hepsia CP. By using a really simple interface, you are 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 within to your Control Panel, to navigate to the IP Blocking section, to select a specific domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You won't have to do anything complex if you wish to block an entire network - you will simply have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot shall block the whole range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed in the very same section, so you shall be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with a mouse click.