From time to time you may need to block specific third parties from accessing your Internet sites. There are plenty of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for example, and produce fake visits and site traffic. There are also spammers that leave links to questionable Internet sites as comments to site articles. Such things may significantly undermine your hard work, simply because nobody likes to visit an Internet site with many hundreds of fake comments, also the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots may generate high load on the server where your Internet site is hosted, which could result in the site not functioning properly. Among the most effective solutions in cases like this is to block the IPs that create the fake traffic, so as to be certain that the visits to your site are real.
IP Blocking in Cloud Website Hosting
If you have a cloud website hosting account with us and you want to block one or a few IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, which is included in our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. Using a very simple interface, you could prevent any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it takes to perform that is to log in to your CP, to navigate to the IP Blocking section, to choose a certain domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to type in the IP address. You won't need to do anything difficult if you wish to block a whole network - you'll just have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot will block the entire range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed inside the very same section, so you shall be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with simply a click.
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
Our semi-dedicated server accounts feature a rather simple-to-use IP blocking tool, which will enable you to prohibit individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your Internet sites with no more thana couple of mouse clicks and you shall not have any problems to do that even if that is your first website hosting account. When you go to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you will just need to choose the domain or subdomain you need from a drop-down list, then enter the IP address within a box which you'll see there and you will be good to go. To restrict the access for a whole network, you have to leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you input 123.123. and don't enter anything in the third and fourth positions, our server shall deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.