Occasionally you may need to block specific third parties from accessing your websites. There are a lot of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for instance, and produce fake visits and website traffic. In addition, there are spammers that leave links to shady Internet sites as comments to website articles. This sort of things may significantly undermine your hard work, simply because nobody likes to visit a website with hundreds of fake comments, plus the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots could create high load on the server in which your site is hosted, which can result in the site not functioning properly. Among the most effective solutions in such a case is to block the IPs which produce the fake traffic, as a way to ensure that the visits to your site are real.
IP Blocking in Shared Web Hosting
Our shared web hosting services come with an IP blocking tool, so if you'd like to limit the access to your sites, you'll be able to do so with a few mouse clicks. The tool is part of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all accounts and that is quite simple to use. Once 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 input the IP address that should be blocked. Our system allows you to block whole networks also, so if you input 123.123.123., for example, this'll block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your Internet sites. In case you would like to whitelist an IP at some point, you may unblock it with simply a mouse click from the same section.
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You will be able to block IP addresses easily and stop the unwelcome traffic to any Internet site hosted inside a semi-dedicated server account with us, since we offer a really easy-to-use tool to do that, that is included with our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Even if you have never tackled this type of matters in the past, you will not have any difficulties, since our tool provides a very user-friendly interface. As you go to the IP blocking section of the CP, you'll find a full list of all the domains and subdomains which you have added inside the Hosted Domains section. What you need to do to block an IP address is select the desired domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then type the IP inside the box below. The change will take effect immediately, so you'll not get any traffic from this address in the future. Removing an IP from the blocked list is just as easy.