Once in a while you may have to block specific third parties from accessing your Internet sites. There are plenty of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for instance, and produce fake visits and website traffic. There are also spammers who leave links to shady Internet sites as comments to blog articles. This type of things can greatly undermine your hard work, because no one likes to visit a website with many hundreds of fake comments, plus the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots may create high load on the web server in which your site is hosted, which may result in the site not functioning properly. Among the most effective solutions in such cases is to block the IP addresses which create the fake traffic, in order to be certain that the visits to your website are authentic.
IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting
Our IP Blocking tool comes with the revolutionary Hepsia hosting Control Panel, provided with all cloud hosting accounts. It will enable you to block addresses with just a couple of clicks. No coding skills are required, because you will use an intuitive interface - you need to simply select a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type in the IP address that you would like to be blocked. You shall be able to see all the IP addresses you have added inside the same section and whitelisting each of them will take only a click. If you notice your Internet site is being flooded by different IPs, you shall be able to block an entire IP range also. This could be performed by omitting the last number of the address. For example, if you need to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you only need to input 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Our semi-dedicated server accounts come with a rather simple-to-use IP blocking tool, which will permit you to prohibit individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your Internet sites with onlyseveral mouse clicks and you shall not have any issues to accomplish that even if this is your first hosting account. As soon as you go to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you'll only need to select the domain or subdomain you need from a drop-down list, then type in the IP address inside a box that you will see there and you will be all set. To restrict the access for a whole network, you'll have to leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you enter 123.123. and don't input anything within the third and fourth positions, our server shall deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.