From time to time you may need to block certain third parties from accessing your sites. There are plenty of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for example, and generate fake visits and traffic. There are spammers that leave links to suspicious websites as comments to site articles. This type of things may drastically undermine your work, as nobody likes to visit a website with countless fake comments, furthermore the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots could generate high load on the server where your site is hosted, which could result in your site not working properly. One of the best solutions in this case is to block the IP addresses which create the fake traffic, so as to ensure that the visits to your website are legitimate.
IP Blocking in Website Hosting
Our IP Blocking tool comes with the revolutionary Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all website hosting accounts. It'll allow you to block addresses with a few mouse clicks. No coding skills are needed, due to the fact that you shall use an intuitive interface - you just have to choose a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and input the IP address that you'd like to be blocked. You will be able to see all the IP addresses you have added within the exact same section and whitelisting any of them shall take just a mouse click. If you notice your Internet site is being flooded by different IPs, you'll be able to block a whole IP range as well. This could be completed by omitting the last number of the address. For instance, if you need to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you simply have to type in 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
Our semi-dedicated server accounts come with a really simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will allow you to prohibit individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your websites with no more thanseveral mouse clicks and you shall not have any issues to achieve that even if that is your first hosting account. Once you check out the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you'll only have to choose 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 a whole network, you'll have to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you type 123.123. and don't type anything inside the third and fourth positions, our server shall deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.