Every now and then you may have to block certain third parties from accessing your sites. There are plenty of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for instance, and generate fake visits and online traffic. There are also spammers who leave links to shady websites as comments to website articles. This sort of things may drastically undermine your projects, simply because nobody likes to visit an Internet site with countless fake comments, plus the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots may generate high load on the server in which your site is hosted, that can result in the site not working correctly. One of the best solutions in this case is to block the IPs that generate the fake traffic, in order to make sure that the visits to your Internet site are real.
IP Blocking in Shared Website Hosting
If you purchase a Linux shared website hosting package from our company, you shall be able to see detailed traffic stats for all your sites and if you notice that a considerable amount of the visits to any of them aren't real, you are able to block the IP addresses which have produced the most traffic by using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is quite simple - select 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 will appear in the same exact section of the Control Panel, allowing you to always remove any one of them and allow it to access your site again. You can block entire IP ranges through the tool as well - you just have to leave 1 or 2 octets from the address blank. For 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
You shall be able to block IP addresses effortlessly and stop the unwelcome traffic to any Internet site hosted within a semi-dedicated server account with our company, since we offer a very easy-to-use tool to do that, which is included with our Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Even if you have not tackled this sort of problems in the past, you'll not have any difficulties, as our tool has a very user-friendly interface. When you go to the IP blocking section of the Control Panel, you will find a complete list of all the domains and subdomains which you have added inside the Hosted Domains section. All you have to do to block an IP address is pick the desired domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then type in the IP within the box below. The change shall take effect instantly, so you will not get any traffic from this address in the future. Removing an IP from the blocked list is equally uncomplicated.