Occasionally you may have to block particular third parties from accessing your sites. There are plenty of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for example, and produce fake visits and website traffic. There's also spammers that leave links to questionable websites as comments to website articles. This kind of things could greatly undermine your projects, as no one likes to visit a website with hundreds of fake comments, plus the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots can generate high load on the server on which your website is hosted, which may result in your site not working properly. One of the best solutions in this case is to block the IP addresses that create the fake traffic, as a way to be sure that the visits to your Internet site are real.
IP Blocking in Shared Web Hosting
If you purchase a shared web hosting service from us, you'll be able to see detailed traffic statistics for all of your Internet sites and if you notice that a lot of the visits to each of them aren't real, you are able to block the IP addresses which have created the most traffic via our IP Blocking tool. The interface is incredibly simple - choose the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then type the IP address you want to block and save the change. All of the addresses which you have blacklisted will appear inside the very same section of the Control Panel, so you can always remove any of them and enable it to access your site again. You can block entire IP ranges via the tool too - you just have to leave one or two 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 Servers
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with our Linux semi-dedicated hosting service, will enable you to solve the problem with unwanted traffic very easily and quickly. It features an IP blocking tool where you may add IP addresses with a few clicks. All domains and subdomains you have in the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you simply have to pick the one you need and then enter the IP address that needs to be blocked. If you would like to block an entire range, a C-class network for example, you simply need to type the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That shall block all 254 addresses, so you'll not have to type them by hand. As all the IPs which you include in this section will be listed, you can effortlessly unblock any of them by clicking the Delete button associated with the particular IP.