Every now and then you may have to block specific third parties from accessing your websites. There are a lot of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for instance, and generate fake visits and traffic. There are spammers who leave links to questionable sites as comments to site articles. This sort of things can greatly undermine your work, because no one likes to visit a website with countless fake comments, also the increased traffic from both spammers and bots can create high load on the web server on which your Internet site is hosted, that could result in your site not functioning properly. Among the most effective solutions in such a case is to block the IP addresses that generate the fake traffic, so as to be certain that the visits to your website are legitimate.
IP Blocking in Hosting
If you get a Linux hosting package from us, you'll be able to see comprehensive traffic statistics for all of your Internet sites and if you notice that a considerable amount of the visits to any of them aren't legit, you can block the IP addresses which have created the most traffic by using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is extremely 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've blacklisted shall appear in the exact same section of the CP, allowing you to always remove any one of them and permit it to access your site again. You are able to block whole IP ranges through the tool too - you simply need to leave 1 or 2 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 Hosting
You'll be able to block IP addresses without difficulty and stop the unwelcome traffic to any Internet site hosted inside a semi-dedicated server account with our company, as we offer a really easy-to-use tool to do that, that's offered with our Hepsia hosting CP. Even if you have not dealt with this type of issues in the past, you'll not have any difficulties, because our tool includes a very user-friendly interface. When you navigate to the IP blocking section of the Control Panel, you'll find a full list of all the domains and subdomains that you have added within the Hosted Domains section. All you have to do to block an IP address is select the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and enter the IP inside the box below. The change will take effect at once, so you will not get any traffic from this address in the future. Removing an IP from the blocked list is just as quick.