Once in a while you may have to block specific third parties from accessing your sites. There are plenty of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for instance, and produce fake visits and website traffic. Additionally, there are spammers that leave links to shady websites as comments to site articles. This type of things could drastically undermine your projects, since nobody likes to visit an Internet site with countless fake comments, not to mention that the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots can generate high load on the server where your site is hosted, which can result in the site not working correctly. Among the most effective solutions in such a case is to block the IPs which create the fake traffic, as a way to make sure that the visits to your website are real.
IP Blocking in Website Hosting
If you order a Linux website hosting service from us, you shall be able to see in depth traffic stats for all of your Internet sites and if you notice that a lot of the visits to any of them aren't legit, you'll be able to block the IP addresses that have generated the most traffic via our IP Blocking tool. The interface is extremely simple - choose the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then type the IP address that you'd like to block and save the change. All the addresses you have blacklisted will show up inside the very same section of the Control Panel, so you're able to always remove any one of them and allow it to access your Internet site again. You'll be able to block entire IP ranges through the tool also - you just need to leave one or two octets from the address blank. As an example, entering 1.2.3. will block all 254 IPs from 1.2.3.1 to 1.2.3.255.
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Our semi-dedicated server accounts include a rather simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will enable you to restrict individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your Internet sites with onlyseveral clicks and you won't have any problems to do that even if this is your first hosting account. When you go to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia CP, you will simply have to choose the domain or subdomain you want from a drop-down list, then type in the IP address within a box that you'll see there and you will be ready. To prohibit the access for a whole network, you need to leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you input 123.123. and do not type in anything inside the third and fourth positions, our web server shall deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.