Occasionally you might need to block particular third parties from accessing your sites. There are a number of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for example, and produce fake visits and online traffic. In addition, there are spammers who leave links to shady sites as comments to site articles. This type of things can greatly undermine your hard work, simply because no one likes to visit a website with many fake comments, not to mention that the increased traffic from both spammers and bots can create high load on the server where your site is hosted, that could result in the site not functioning properly. Among the most effective solutions in this case is to block the IP addresses which generate the fake traffic, in order to make certain that the visits to your site are authentic.
IP Blocking in Web Hosting
If you have a web hosting account with our company and you would like to block one or a number of IP addresses, you may use the IP Blocking tool, that is integrated into our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Through a pretty simple interface, you'll be able to stop any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it takes to do that is to log in to your CP, to go to the IP Blocking section, to choose a certain domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to enter the IP address. You won't have to do anything complicated if you would like to block a whole network - you'll just have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot will block the entire range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed inside the same section, so you will be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with a mouse click.
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you host your Internet sites within a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you want to block one or numerous IP addresses eventually, you are able to take advantage of the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we've included in our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With a couple of mouse clicks, you shall be able to block specific IPs or whole ranges, if needed. All you'll have to do is pick out any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, select if the blocking must be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder which is part of the site, and then type in the IP address that you want to block. For an IP range, you only have to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address with regards to the size of the network you want to block. All the addresses which you have restricted shall be listed inside the same section and if you would like to whitelist any of them, you'll be able to do it with only a mouse click whenever you want.