Once in a while you may need to block specific third parties from accessing your websites. There are a number of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for example, and create fake visits and site traffic. There's also spammers who leave links to suspicious websites as comments to site articles. This type of things may significantly undermine your projects, simply because nobody likes to visit a website with tons of fake comments, furthermore the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots could create high load on the server in which your Internet site is hosted, which can result in your site not functioning properly. Among the most effective solutions in such cases is to block the IP addresses that generate the fake traffic, so as to be sure that the visits to your site are authentic.

IP Blocking in Web Hosting

If you order a Linux web hosting package from us, you shall be able to see detailed traffic stats for all of your Internet sites and if you notice that a considerable amount of the visits to each of them are not legitimate, you could block the IP addresses that have generated the most traffic through our IP Blocking tool. The interface is really simple - pick the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then enter the IP address you want to block and save the change. All of the addresses which you have blacklisted will show up inside the very same section of the Control Panel, so that you can always remove any of them and enable it to access your site again. You'll be able to block whole IP ranges through the tool as well - you simply need to leave one or two 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

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, offered with our Linux semi-dedicated packages, will allow you to solve the problem with unwanted traffic very quickly and easily. It features an IP blocking tool in which you can add IP addresses with a few clicks. All domains and subdomains that you have inside the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you just have to select the one you need and then input the IP address that has to be blocked. If you want to block a whole range, a C-class network for example, you simply need to input the first 3 octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That shall block all 254 addresses, so you shall not have to enter them by hand. As all the IPs that you include in this section shall be listed, you can effortlessly unblock any of them by clicking the Delete button relevant to the particular IP.