Every now and then you may have to block specific third parties from accessing your Internet sites. There are a lot of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for example, and create fake visits and site traffic. There are spammers that leave links to suspicious Internet sites as comments to blog articles. Such things can considerably undermine your hard work, because nobody likes to visit a site with countless fake comments, not to mention that the increased traffic from both spammers and bots could generate high load on the server on which your website is hosted, which can result in your site not working properly. One of the best solutions in cases like this is to block the IPs which create the fake traffic, so as to ensure that the visits to your site are real.
IP Blocking in Shared Web Hosting
Our Linux shared web hosting packages offer an IP blocking tool, so if you would like to limit the access to your sites, you'll be able to do so with several clicks. The tool is included with the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all accounts and which is quite simple to use. As soon as you log in and navigate to the IP blocking section, you'll just have to pick a domain or a subdomain hosted in the account and type the IP address that needs to be blocked. Our system will permit you to block entire networks as well, so if you type 123.123.123., for example, this will block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your websites. If you wish to whitelist an IP at some point, you may unblock it with just a mouse click from the same section.
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Our semi-dedicated server accounts include a very simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will permit you to prohibit individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your websites with justa couple of mouse clicks and you will not have any troubles to achieve that even if that's your first website hosting account. As soon as you go to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you'll only have to select the domain or subdomain you need from a drop-down list, then input the IP address in a box that you will see there and you will be all set. To prohibit the access for an entire network, you have to leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you input 123.123. and don't type in anything inside the third and fourth positions, our hosting server shall deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.