Once in a while you might need to block certain third parties from accessing your websites. There are a number of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for instance, and generate fake visits and traffic. There are also spammers who leave links to questionable Internet sites as comments to blog articles. This sort of things can considerably undermine your work, because nobody likes to visit a website with hundreds of fake comments, furthermore the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots could create high load on the server in which your site is hosted, which could result in your site not functioning properly. Among the most effective solutions in such cases is to block the IPs which produce the fake traffic, in order to be sure that the visits to your website are real.
IP Blocking in Cloud Hosting
Our Linux cloud hosting feature an IP blocking tool, so if you'd like to restrict the access to your websites, you will be able to do so with only a couple of mouse clicks. The tool is part of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all accounts and that's very simple to use. As soon as you log in and check out the IP blocking section, you will just have to select a domain or a subdomain hosted inside the account and input the IP address which needs to be blocked. Our system allows you to block entire networks as well, so if you type in 123.123.123., for instance, this'll block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your websites. In case you wish to whitelist an IP at some point, you could unblock it with just a mouse click from the same section.
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, provided with our semi-dedicated servers, will permit you to solve the problem with unwanted traffic very easily and quickly. It incorporates an IP blocking tool where you may add IP addresses with just several mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains that you have within the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only have to choose the one you need and then input the IP address that needs to be blocked. If you wish to block a whole range, a C-class network for example, you just need to input the first 3 octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That will block all 254 addresses, so you shall not have to enter them by hand. As all the IPs you include in this section shall be listed, you could quickly unblock any of them by clicking the Delete button associated with the particular IP.