Occasionally you might need to block particular third parties from accessing your websites. There are a number of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for instance, and produce fake visits and site traffic. There are also spammers who leave links to questionable websites as comments to blog articles. This type of things could significantly undermine your projects, simply because no one likes to visit an Internet site with tons of fake comments, not to mention that the increased traffic from both spammers and bots can create high load on the web server in which your website is hosted, which may result in your site not working properly. Among the most effective solutions in such cases is to block the IP addresses that produce the fake traffic, as a way to be certain that the visits to your Internet site are real.
IP Blocking in Shared Hosting
Our IP Blocking tool comes with the ground breaking Hepsia hosting Control Panel, offered with all shared hosting accounts. It'll permit you to block addresses with only several mouse clicks. No coding skills are required, because you shall use an intuitive interface - you simply need to pick a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and enter the IP address that you'd like to be blocked. You shall be able to see all the IP addresses that you have added inside the very same section and whitelisting each of them shall take only a mouse click. If you notice your website is being flooded by different IPs, you will be able to block a whole IP range as well. This may be done by omitting the last number of the address. For instance, if you wish to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you simply need to enter 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with our semi-dedicated servers, will permit you to solve the issue with unwanted traffic very quickly and easily. It includes an IP blocking tool where you can add IP addresses with only several clicks. All domains and subdomains which you have inside the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you just need to choose the one you need and then enter the IP address which should be blocked. If you would like to block a whole range, a C-class network for example, you just have to enter the first 3 octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That shall block all 254 addresses, so you'll not have to type them manually. Considering that all the IPs that you add in this section shall be listed, you can quickly unblock any of them by clicking the Delete button associated with the given IP.