Occasionally you might need to block specific third parties from accessing your websites. There are a lot of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for example, and produce fake visits and website traffic. In addition, there are spammers who leave links to suspicious websites as comments to site articles. This type of things can significantly undermine your hard work, since no one likes to visit an Internet site with countless fake comments, not to mention that the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots may create high load on the web server on which your website is hosted, that can result in your site not working properly. Among the most effective solutions in cases like this is to block the IP addresses that generate the fake traffic, in order to be sure that the visits to your site are real.

IP Blocking in Cloud Web Hosting

If you have a cloud web hosting account with us and you wish to block one or a number of IP addresses, you could use the IP Blocking tool, which is integrated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Through a rather simple interface, you could stop any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it requires to do this is to log in to your Control Panel, to check out the IP Blocking section, to pick a certain domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to type in the IP address. You simply won't need to do anything complicated if you'd like to block a whole network - you'll just need to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot will block the full range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed inside the same section, so you will be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with just a click.