Occasionally you might need to block particular third parties from accessing your websites. There are a lot of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for example, and produce fake visits and site traffic. Additionally, there are spammers that leave links to questionable sites as comments to site articles. This sort of things can significantly undermine your hard work, because no one likes to visit a website with many hundreds of fake comments, plus the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots may create high load on the web server where your Internet site is hosted, that could result in your site not functioning properly. One of the best solutions in cases like this is to block the IPs which generate the fake traffic, in order to make sure that the visits to your website are legitimate.
IP Blocking in Web Hosting
If you have a web hosting account with our company and you would like to block one or several IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, that is integrated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. Using a rather simple interface, you are able to stop any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it takes to complete that is to log in to your CP, to visit the IP Blocking section, to pick a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to type in the IP address. You simply won't have to do anything complicated if you want to block an entire network - you'll just need to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot will block the full range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed in the same exact section, so you will be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with simply a mouse click.
IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia hosting CP, offered with our Linux semi-dedicated service, will allow you to solve the problem with unwanted traffic very efficiently. It includes an IP blocking tool in which you may add IP addresses with a few mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains which you have in the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you just have to pick the one you need and then input the IP address that needs to be blocked. If you would like to block a whole range, a C-class network for example, you simply need to type the first three octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That will block all 254 addresses, so you'll not need to type in them by hand. Considering that all the IPs that you include in this section shall be listed, you may effortlessly unblock any of them by clicking the Delete button associated with the particular IP.