Every now and then you might need to block certain third parties from accessing your Internet sites. There are a number of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for example, and generate fake visits and traffic. There are also spammers who leave links to shady Internet sites as comments to blog articles. Such things could greatly undermine your work, because no one likes to visit a website with hundreds of fake comments, furthermore the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots can create high load on the server in which your site is hosted, that can result in your site not working properly. Among the most effective solutions in such a case is to block the IP addresses that create the fake traffic, in order to ensure that the visits to your site are legitimate.
IP Blocking in Website Hosting
Our IP Blocking tool is part of the revolutionary Hepsia hosting Control Panel, offered with all website hosting accounts. It will permit you to block addresses with a couple of mouse clicks. No coding skills are required, since you shall use an intuitive interface - you simply need to pick 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 have added in the very same section and whitelisting each of them shall take simply a click. If you notice that your Internet site is being flooded by different IPs, you'll be able to block an entire IP range too. This can be completed by omitting the last number of the address. For instance, if you want to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you basically have to enter 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
Our semi-dedicated server accounts come with a quite simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that'll allow you to prohibit individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your sites with justa couple of clicks and you will not have any troubles to achieve that even if that's your first website hosting account. When you visit the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you will simply have to pick the domain or subdomain you want from a drop-down list, then input the IP address inside a box that you'll see there and you will be all set. To limit the access for a whole network, you will need to leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you input 123.123. and don't type in anything inside the third and fourth positions, our server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.