Once in a while you may need to block certain third parties from accessing your Internet sites. There are a number of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for example, and produce fake visits and website traffic. There's also spammers who leave links to suspicious websites as comments to website articles. Such things may greatly undermine your work, since nobody likes to visit a website with many hundreds of fake comments, plus the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots can generate high load on the server in which your website is hosted, which can result in your site not working correctly. Among the most effective solutions in such a case is to block the IP addresses that create the fake traffic, as a way to be sure that the visits to your site are legitimate.
IP Blocking in Web Hosting
Our IP Blocking tool comes with the advanced Hepsia hosting Control Panel, provided with all web hosting accounts. It will enable you to block addresses with just several mouse clicks. No coding skills are necessary, due to the fact that you'll use an intuitive interface - you need to simply pick a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and input the IP address you want to be blocked. You'll be able to see all the IP addresses that you have added in the exact same section and whitelisting any of them will take simply a mouse click. If you notice your Internet site is being flooded by numerous IPs, you will be able to block a whole IP range too. This may be performed by omitting the last number of the address. For example, if you need to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you basically need to input 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you host your websites within a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you want to block one or a number of IP addresses eventually, you may benefit from the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we have supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With simply several mouse clicks, you shall be able to block certain IPs or whole ranges, if necessary. All you will need to do is pick any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, select if the blocking must be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that is part of the site, and then input the IP address that you would like to block. For an IP range, you only need to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address in accordance with the size of the network that you want to block. All of the addresses that you've restricted shall be listed inside the same exact section and if you want to whitelist any of them, you will be able to do it with simply a click whenever you want.