Every now and then you may have to block specific third parties from accessing your websites. There are a lot of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for example, and generate fake visits and online traffic. There are also spammers that leave links to suspicious websites as comments to site articles. Such things may considerably undermine your work, because nobody likes to visit an Internet site with many hundreds of fake comments, furthermore the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots could generate high load on the server in which your website is hosted, which can result in the site not working correctly. Among the most effective solutions in such a case is to block the IP addresses that generate the fake traffic, as a way to be sure that the visits to your site are authentic.
IP Blocking in Hosting
Our Linux hosting service include an IP blocking tool, so in case you'd like to restrict the access to your websites, it shall be able to do this with simply a couple of clicks. The tool is part of the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all accounts and which is super easy to use. Once you log in and visit the IP blocking section, you will just need to pick a domain or a subdomain hosted in the account and enter the IP address which should be blocked. Our system enables you to block whole networks too, so if you enter 123.123.123., for instance, this will block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your Internet sites. 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
The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with our Linux semi-dedicated servers, will allow you to solve the matter with unwanted traffic very quickly and easily. It features an IP blocking tool in which you could add IP addresses with only a few mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains which you have in the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only have to pick the one you need and then enter the IP address which needs to be blocked. If you want to block a whole range, a C-class network for instance, you just have to type the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. This shall block all 254 addresses, so you'll not have to input them manually. As all the IPs you add in this section shall be listed, you may easily unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button associated with the particular IP.