Every now and then you might need to block particular third parties from accessing your Internet sites. There are a number of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for example, and create fake visits and online traffic. There are spammers who leave links to suspicious sites as comments to blog articles. This kind of things may considerably undermine your hard work, because nobody likes to visit a site with many hundreds of fake comments, furthermore the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots may generate high load on the server on which your website is hosted, which could result in the site not functioning properly. Among the most effective solutions in such cases is to block the IPs that produce the fake traffic, as a way to make certain that the visits to your Internet site are legitimate.
IP Blocking in Web Hosting
Our IP Blocking tool is part of the revolutionary Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all web hosting accounts. It shall permit you to block addresses with simply a couple of clicks. No coding skills are required, because you will use an intuitive interface - you need to simply choose a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and input the IP address that you want to be blocked. You shall be able to see all the IP addresses that you have added in the very same section and whitelisting any of them shall take just a click. If you notice that your site is being flooded by various IPs, you shall be able to block a whole IP range as well. This could 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 basically need to input 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you host your websites within a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you need to block one or several IP addresses at some point, you are able to take advantage of the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we've supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With a couple of clicks, you will be able to block individual IPs or entire ranges, if needed. All you shall have to do is choose any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, select if the blocking needs to be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that is part of the site, and then type in the IP address that you'd like to block. For an IP range, you simply have to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address based on the size of the network that you want to block. All the addresses that you've restricted will be listed inside the exact same section and if you would like to whitelist any one of them, you'll be able to do it with simply a click at any time.