Occasionally you might need to block specific third parties from accessing your websites. There are a lot of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for example, and produce fake visits and online traffic. In addition, there are spammers that leave links to questionable Internet sites as comments to website articles. This kind of things could considerably undermine your projects, simply because no one likes to visit an Internet site with tons of fake comments, plus the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots can create high load on the server on which your website is hosted, which could result in your site not working properly. One of the best solutions in such a case is to block the IP addresses which produce the fake traffic, so as to make certain that the visits to your website are legitimate.
IP Blocking in Shared Hosting
Our IP Blocking tool is included with the innovative Hepsia hosting Control Panel, offered with all shared hosting accounts. It shall permit you to block addresses with just several clicks. No coding skills are necessary, because you'll use an intuitive interface - you simply need to choose a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type the IP address that you'd like to be blocked. You will be able to see all the IP addresses that you've added in the very same section and whitelisting any of them shall take just a mouse click. If you notice your Internet site is being flooded by various IPs, you'll be able to block an entire IP range as well. This can be performed by omitting the last number of the address. For example, if you wish to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you just have to input 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia hosting CP, included with our semi-dedicated plans, will permit you to solve the issue with unwanted traffic very quickly and easily. It incorporates an IP blocking tool in which you may add IP addresses with a couple of mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains you have in the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you just have to pick the one you need and then input the IP address which should be blocked. If you wish to block an entire range, a C-class network for example, you simply need to enter the first 3 octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. This shall block all 254 addresses, so you'll not have to type in them by hand. Since all the IPs you include in this section shall be listed, you could effortlessly unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button relevant to the given IP.