From time to time you might need to block specific third parties from accessing your Internet sites. There are a number of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for instance, and create fake visits and website traffic. There's also spammers who leave links to shady websites as comments to site articles. This sort of things can drastically undermine your hard work, simply because no one likes to visit a website with tons of fake comments, not to mention that the increased traffic from both spammers and bots could create high load on the server where your Internet site is hosted, which could result in the site not functioning properly. One of the best solutions in cases like this is to block the IPs which generate the fake traffic, as a way to be certain that the visits to your website are real.
IP Blocking in Shared Hosting
Our shared hosting plans come with an IP blocking tool, so in case you want to restrict the access to your sites, it shall be able to do this with only a couple of clicks. The tool is provided with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all accounts and which is quite simple to use. When you log in and check out the IP blocking section, you'll just need to choose a domain or a subdomain hosted in the account and type the IP address that needs to be blocked. Our system will enable you to block entire networks too, so if you type 123.123.123., for instance, this will block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your sites. In case you want to whitelist an IP at some point, you'll be able to unblock it with simply a mouse click from the same section.
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
Our semi-dedicated server accounts come with a quite simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will enable you to restrict individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your Internet sites with simplya few mouse clicks and you shall not have any issues to achieve that even if this is your first website hosting account. Once you go to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia CP, you'll simply have to select the domain or subdomain in question from a drop-down list, then type in the IP address within a box which you'll see there and you will be ready. To limit the access for an entire network, you will need to leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you type in 123.123. and don't input anything in 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.