IP Blocking

Find out more about IP blocking, what it indicates and just how and when it’s best to utilize it.

Once in a while you may need to block particular third parties from accessing your sites. There are a lot of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for example, and create fake visits and traffic. There are also spammers who leave links to suspicious sites as comments to site articles. This kind of things may greatly undermine your work, simply because no one likes to visit a website with many 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 your site not working correctly. One of the best solutions in such a case is to block the IPs which produce the fake traffic, in order to make certain that the visits to your Internet site are real.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your websites within a semi-dedicated server account with us and you want to block one or a number of IP addresses at some point, you'll be able to take advantage of the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we have provided with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With a couple of clicks, you shall be able to block certain IPs or whole ranges, if necessary. All you shall need to do is select any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, choose if the blocking must be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that is part of the site, and then input the IP address that you want to block. For an IP range, you just need to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address depending on the size of the network you want to block. Each of the addresses that you've restricted shall be listed inside the same exact section and if you wish to whitelist any of them, you'll be able to do it with simply a mouse click anytime.