Once in a while you may need to block certain third parties from accessing your sites. There are a number of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for instance, and generate fake visits and online traffic. There's also spammers who leave links to shady Internet sites as comments to blog articles. Such things can drastically undermine your projects, simply because nobody likes to visit an Internet site with countless fake comments, plus the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots could create high load on the web server in which your Internet site is hosted, that can result in your site not working properly. Among the most effective solutions in such a case is to block the IPs that produce the fake traffic, so as to be sure that the visits to your website are authentic.
IP Blocking in Cloud Website Hosting
Our cloud website hosting include an IP blocking tool, so if you'd like to limit the access to your websites, it shall be able to do this with simply a couple of mouse clicks. The tool is part of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all accounts and which is very easy to use. As you log in and navigate to the IP blocking section, you'll just need to pick a domain or a subdomain hosted inside the account and input the IP address that should be blocked. Our system will allow you to block entire networks also, so if you enter 123.123.123., for instance, this'll block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your Internet sites. If you wish to whitelist an IP at some point, you could unblock it with simply a mouse click from the same section.
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you host your sites in a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you want to block one or a few IP addresses eventually, you can use the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we've provided with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With several mouse clicks, you shall be able to block specific IPs or entire ranges, if necessary. All you shall need to do is select any of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, select if the blocking must be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that's part of the website, and then enter the IP address that you want to block. For an IP range, you simply need to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address depending on the size of the network that you want to block. All of the addresses you have restricted shall be listed in the exact same section and if you want to whitelist any one of them, you shall be able to do it with only a mouse click at any time.