Once in a while you may have to block particular third parties from accessing your Internet sites. There are a number of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for instance, and produce fake visits and website traffic. There's also spammers who leave links to suspicious websites as comments to site articles. This type of things can greatly undermine your projects, because no one likes to visit a website with hundreds of fake comments, plus the increased traffic from both spammers and bots may generate high load on the server on which your Internet site is hosted, that could result in the site not working properly. Among the most effective solutions in this case is to block the IP addresses that produce the fake traffic, as a way to be sure that the visits to your website are legitimate.
IP Blocking in Web Hosting
If you get a Linux web hosting package from us, you shall be able to see detailed traffic statistics for all of your Internet sites and if you notice that a considerable amount of the visits to any of them aren't legitimate, you'll be able to block the IP addresses that have created the most traffic through our IP Blocking tool. The interface is incredibly simple - select the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then type in the IP address that you'd like to block and save the change. All of the addresses that you've blacklisted will show up inside the same section of the CP, so you're able to always remove any of them and permit it to access your site again. You can block whole IP ranges using the tool too - you just have to leave 1 or 2 octets from the address blank. For instance, 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
Our semi-dedicated server accounts feature a really simple-to-use IP blocking tool, which will permit you to restrict individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your websites with justa few clicks and you will not have any difficulties to accomplish that even if that's your first hosting account. As soon as you navigate to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you will only have to pick the domain or subdomain you need from a drop-down list, then input the IP address inside a box that you will see there and you will be ready. To limit the access for a whole network, you must leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you type 123.123. and do not type in 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.