From time to time you may have to block specific third parties from accessing your sites. There are plenty of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for instance, and produce fake visits and website traffic. There are spammers that leave links to shady websites as comments to website articles. This kind of things could greatly undermine your projects, as no one likes to visit a site with many hundreds of fake comments, furthermore the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots could generate high load on the server in which your site is hosted, that can result in your site not working correctly. Among the most effective solutions in cases like this is to block the IP addresses that generate the fake traffic, as a way to be sure that the visits to your site are legitimate.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

If you order a Linux shared 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 considerable amount of the visits to each of them are not legit, you may block the IP addresses which have generated the most traffic via our IP Blocking tool. The interface is extremely simple - pick the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then input the IP address you want to block and save the change. All of the addresses you have blacklisted will appear in the exact same section of the CP, so you're able to always remove any of them and enable it to access your website again. You'll be able to block whole IP ranges through the tool as well - you simply 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

If you host your Internet sites within a semi-dedicated server account with us and you want to block one or numerous IP addresses sooner or later, you may benefit from the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we've supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With simply a couple of clicks, you'll be able to block individual IPs or whole ranges, if needed. All you shall have to do is pick out any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, decide if the blocking must be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that's part of the Internet site, and then input the IP address you want to block. For an IP range, you just need to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address in accordance with the size of the network you want to block. Each of the addresses which you have restricted shall be listed within the exact same section and if you want to whitelist any of them, you shall be able to do it with simply a click whenever you want.