Once in a while you may need to block certain third parties from accessing your websites. There are plenty of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for example, and generate fake visits and online traffic. There's also spammers who leave links to questionable Internet sites as comments to website articles. This type of things could drastically undermine your projects, because no one likes to visit an Internet site with tons of fake comments, plus the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots may generate high load on the server where your Internet site is hosted, which could result in your site not working correctly. Among the most effective solutions in such cases is to block the IPs that produce the fake traffic, so as to be sure that the visits to your Internet site are real.
IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting
If you get a Linux cloud package from us, you'll be able to see in depth traffic statistics for all your sites and if you notice that a considerable amount of the visits to each of them aren't legit, you can block the IP addresses which have created the most traffic using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is quite simple - choose the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then type the IP address that you want to block and save the change. All the addresses which you have blacklisted will appear in the same section of the CP, so that you can always remove any of them and permit it to access your site again. You are able to block entire IP ranges through the tool as well - you just need to leave 1 or 2 octets from the address blank. For 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 quite simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that'll enable you to prohibit individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your websites with onlyseveral mouse clicks and you will not have any problems to accomplish that even if that is your first hosting account. When you check out the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you will just have to choose the domain or subdomain you want from a drop-down list, then enter the IP address inside a box which you'll see there and you will be all set. To limit the access for an entire network, you'll have to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you input 123.123. and don't enter anything inside the third and fourth positions, our hosting server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.