Every now and then you may have to block certain third parties from accessing your websites. There are plenty of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for example, and create fake visits and site traffic. In addition, there are spammers that leave links to shady Internet sites as comments to blog articles. This sort of things could significantly undermine your work, simply because no one likes to visit a website with many hundreds of fake comments, furthermore the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots may generate high load on the web server in which your Internet site is hosted, that can result in the site not working properly. One of the best solutions in such a case is to block the IPs that produce the fake traffic, so as to be certain that the visits to your site are authentic.
IP Blocking in Cloud Web Hosting
If you have a cloud web hosting account with us and you would like to block one or a number of IP addresses, you may use the IP Blocking tool, that is included in our in-house built Hepsia CP. By using a very simple interface, you are able to prevent any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it takes to complete this is to log inside to your CP, to go to the IP Blocking section, to choose a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to type in the IP address. You shall not have to do anything complicated if you want to block an entire network - you will just need to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot shall block the entire range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed inside the exact same section, so you'll be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with a mouse click.
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you want to block one or a few IP addresses sooner or later, you'll be able to take advantage of the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we've supplied with our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With simply a few mouse clicks, you shall be able to block individual IPs or entire ranges, if necessary. All you'll have to do is pick out any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, select if the blocking needs to be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder which is part of the site, and then enter the IP address that you want to block. For an IP range, you just need to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address in accordance with the size of the network which you want to block. All the addresses that you've restricted will be listed within the same exact section and if you wish to whitelist any one of them, you'll be able to do it with simply a click whenever you want.