From time to time you might need to block certain third parties from accessing your Internet sites. There are a lot of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for example, and create fake visits and traffic. There's also spammers who leave links to questionable sites as comments to blog articles. This type of things may significantly undermine your work, because no one likes to visit a site with tons of fake comments, not to mention that the increased traffic from both spammers and bots can generate high load on the web server in which your 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, so as to make certain that the visits to your Internet site are legitimate.
IP Blocking in Shared Hosting
If you buy a Linux shared hosting service from us, you will be able to see detailed traffic statistics for all of your Internet sites and if you notice that a large amount of the visits to any of them are not authentic, you could block the IP addresses which have created the most traffic via our IP Blocking tool. The interface is quite simple - pick the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then enter the IP address that you'd like to block and save the change. All of the addresses that you have blacklisted shall appear inside the very same section of the CP, so you can always remove any of them and permit it to access your Internet site again. You are able to block whole IP ranges using the tool too - you just have to leave 1 or 2 octets from the address blank. As an example, 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
If you host your websites in a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you wish to block one or several IP addresses at some point, you'll be able to leverage the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we have included in our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With several clicks, you will be able to block specific IPs or entire ranges, if necessary. All you will need to do is select any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, choose if the blocking must be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that is part of the site, and then type in the IP address that you want to block. For an IP range, you only have to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address in accordance with the size of the network you want to block. Each of the addresses that you've restricted will be listed in the same section and if you want to whitelist any one of them, you will be able to do it with only a mouse click whenever you want.