From time to time you might need to block certain third parties from accessing your websites. There are a number of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for example, and produce fake visits and online traffic. There are spammers who leave links to suspicious websites as comments to site articles. This type of things can significantly undermine your projects, because nobody likes to visit a website with many hundreds of fake comments, not to mention that the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots can create high load on the web server in which your website is hosted, that could result in your site not functioning properly. One of the best solutions in this case is to block the IP addresses that produce the fake traffic, as a way to make certain that the visits to your website are legitimate.
IP Blocking in Shared Web Hosting
Our shared web hosting provide an IP blocking tool, so if you would like to limit the access to your sites, it shall be able to do this with several clicks. The tool is included with the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all accounts and that is quite simple to use. When you log in and visit the IP blocking section, you will just need to choose a domain or a subdomain hosted inside the account and type the IP address that should be blocked. Our system enables you to block entire networks as well, so if you type 123.123.123., for instance, this'll block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your websites. In case you want to whitelist an IP at some point, you may unblock it with just a click from the same section.
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
You shall be able to block IP addresses without difficulty and stop the unwelcome traffic to any Internet site hosted inside a semi-dedicated server account with us, as we offer you a really easy-to-use tool to do that, that's our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Even if you haven't dealt with this type of problems in the past, you will not have any difficulties, as our tool provides a very user-friendly interface. As you visit the IP blocking section of the CP, you shall find a full list of all the domains and subdomains that you've added inside the Hosted Domains section. All you need to do to block an IP address is choose the desired domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and input the IP inside the box below. The change will take effect straightaway, so you will not get any traffic from this address in the future. Removing an IP from the blocked list is just as quick.