Once in a while 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 produce fake visits and traffic. Additionally, there are spammers that leave links to questionable Internet sites as comments to blog articles. This sort of things could greatly undermine your projects, as nobody likes to visit a website with many fake comments, not to mention that the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots could generate high load on the web server on which your Internet site is hosted, that can result in your site not working properly. Among the most effective solutions in this case is to block the IP addresses that create the fake traffic, in order to be certain that the visits to your website are real.
IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting
Our cloud plans feature an IP blocking tool, so if you want to limit the access to your websites, it shall be able to do this with just a few mouse clicks. The tool is provided with the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all accounts and that's very easy to use. As soon as you log in and navigate to the IP blocking section, you will just need to select a domain or a subdomain hosted within the account and type the IP address which should be blocked. Our system enables you to block entire networks also, so if you input 123.123.123., for instance, this'll block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your Internet sites. If you want to whitelist an IP at some point, you can unblock it with just a click from the same section.
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with our semi-dedicated plans, will allow you to solve the issue with unwanted traffic very quickly and easily. It includes an IP blocking tool in which you can add IP addresses with only several clicks. All domains and subdomains that you have within the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you just have to choose the one you need and then type the IP address which needs to be blocked. If you want to block a whole range, a C-class network for example, you just need to input the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That will block all 254 addresses, so you will not have to type them by hand. Since all the IPs you add in this section shall be listed, you can very easily unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button associated with the particular IP.