Once in a while you may have to block certain third parties from accessing your sites. There are a lot of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for instance, and produce fake visits and website traffic. In addition, there are spammers who leave links to shady websites as comments to blog articles. This sort of things may considerably undermine your hard work, since no one likes to visit a site with countless fake comments, furthermore the increased traffic from both spammers and bots could generate high load on the web server in which your Internet site is hosted, that can result in your site not functioning properly. Among the most effective solutions in such cases is to block the IP addresses that generate the fake traffic, so as to be certain that the visits to your site are real.
IP Blocking in Cloud Website Hosting
Our Linux cloud website hosting offer an IP blocking tool, so in case you would like to restrict the access to your Internet 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 that is very simple to use. As soon as you log in and visit the IP blocking section, you shall just have to choose a domain or a subdomain hosted in the account and type in the IP address that needs to be blocked. Our system allows you to block whole networks too, so if you type 123.123.123., for example, this'll block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your sites. In case you would like to whitelist an IP at some point, you may unblock it with a click from the same section.
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Our semi-dedicated server accounts come with a rather simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that'll allow you to prohibit individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your sites with no more thanseveral clicks and you shall not have any troubles to achieve that even if that's your first hosting account. As soon as you go to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you will simply have to pick the domain or subdomain you need from a drop-down list, then enter the IP address in a box that you'll see there and you will be ready. To prohibit the access for a whole network, you'll have to leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you type 123.123. and don't enter 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.