Every now and then you may have to block particular third parties from accessing your websites. There are a number of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for instance, and generate fake visits and online traffic. There are spammers who leave links to shady sites as comments to website articles. Such things can significantly undermine your projects, since no one likes to visit an Internet site with countless fake comments, plus the increased traffic from both spammers and bots may create high load on the web server in which your Internet site is hosted, that can result in your site not working correctly. Among the most effective solutions in this case is to block the IP addresses that generate the fake traffic, in order to be sure that the visits to your website are authentic.

IP Blocking in Website Hosting

If you purchase a Linux website hosting from our company, you'll be able to see in depth traffic stats for all of your Internet sites and if you notice that a large amount of the visits to each of them are not authentic, you are able to block the IP addresses that have generated the most traffic by using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is incredibly simple - pick the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then enter the IP address that you would like to block and save the change. All of the addresses which you have blacklisted will show up inside the exact same section of the Control Panel, so you can always remove any of them and enable it to access your website again. You can block whole IP ranges using the tool as well - you simply need to leave 1 or 2 octets from the address blank. As an example, entering 1.2.3. will block all 254 IPs from 1.2.3.1 to 1.2.3.255.

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our semi-dedicated server accounts come with a really simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that'll enable you to prohibit individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your Internet sites with onlyseveral clicks and you shall not have any troubles to achieve that even if that is your first hosting account. Once you visit the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you will only need to select the domain or subdomain you want from a drop-down list, then type the IP address within a box which you'll see there and you will be ready. To restrict the access for an entire network, you have to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you input 123.123. and do not enter anything in the third and fourth positions, our server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.