{"id":685,"date":"2023-03-27T11:41:53","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T11:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2023\/03\/27\/7193948-why-is-the-vps-license-blocked-at-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T12:12:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:12:03","slug":"7193948-why-is-the-vps-license-blocked-at-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/7193948-why-is-the-vps-license-blocked-at-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is the VPS License Blocked at Hostinger?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">Some control panel license providers, such as cPanel or Webuzo, only allow having <b>one active license per IP address<\/b>. If your VPS already has a license with one of these providers and you purchase another one at Hostinger, the activation will fail, and your license will show a <b>Blocked<\/b> status on hPanel:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2023\/03\/34014307-8785-47d8-904c-748a04823870.jpg\" alt=\"The VPS Licences section on hPanel showing a Blocked status\"><\/div><h2 id=\"h_7e0846a626\">How to check if your VPS IP Is currently licensed<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">You can check directly with the control panel providers whether the IP of your VPS already has an active license:<\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">For cPanel, go to the following page: <b><a href=\"https:\/\/verify.cpanel.net\/app\/verify\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" rel=\"noopener\">cPanel &amp; WHM License Verification<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">In case you&rsquo;re using Webuzo, you can check it here: <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/softaculous\/verify\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" rel=\"noopener\">Softaculous License Verification<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><p class=\"no-margin\">Once on the provider page, enter your <b><a href=\"\/support\/5139756-how-to-find-vps-ip\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">VPS IP address<\/a><\/b> and click on <b>Verify License<\/b>.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><h2 id=\"h_4a6f48d81b\">How to fix a blocked license<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">If you have confirmed that your IP is already licensed, you have two options <b>before activating the new license<\/b> in hPanel:<\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>Wait for the expiration<\/b> of the license purchased with another provider. That is, do not renew or prolong it<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>Fully cancel<\/b> your license with another provider<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><p class=\"no-margin\">Once the older license is inactive, the block on the new one will be lifted, and you will be able to activate it &#128522; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reasons why a VPS license appears with Blocked status and how to fix it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vps-licenses"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/7193948-why-is-the-vps-license-blocked-at-hostinger\/","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/7193948-por-que-esta-bloqueada-la-licencia-del-vps-en-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/7193948-pourquoi-la-licence-vps-est-elle-bloquee-chez-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-PT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/7193948-por-que-a-licenca-vps-esta-bloqueada-no-hostinger\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2978,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions\/2978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}