Every now and then you might need to block specific third parties from accessing your websites. There are a number of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for instance, and generate fake visits and traffic. There are spammers that leave links to suspicious sites as comments to site articles. This sort of things can significantly undermine your work, since no one likes to visit a site with countless fake comments, plus the increased traffic from both spammers and bots can generate high load on the web server in which your website is hosted, that can result in the site not functioning properly. One of the best solutions in this case is to block the IPs that produce the fake traffic, so as to ensure that the visits to your Internet site are legitimate.

IP Blocking in Shared Website Hosting

If you purchase a shared website hosting plan from our company, you will be able to see in depth traffic stats for all of your websites and if you notice that a considerable amount of the visits to any of them aren't legitimate, you'll be able to block the IP addresses that have produced the most traffic using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is incredibly simple - select the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then input the IP address you want to block and save the change. All the addresses which you have blacklisted will appear in the very same section of the CP, so that you can always remove any of them and allow it to access your site again. You'll be able to block entire IP ranges using the tool as well - you just need to leave one or two octets from the address blank. As an 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 Servers

You will be able to block IP addresses easily and stop the unwanted traffic to any Internet site hosted within a semi-dedicated server account with us, since we provide a very easy-to-use tool to do that, which is part of our Hepsia hosting CP. Even if you have not dealt with this kind of problems in the past, you'll not have any difficulties, because our tool has a very user-friendly interface. As you go to the IP blocking section of the Control Panel, you'll find a comprehensive list of all the domains and subdomains which you have added within the Hosted Domains section. What you need to do to block an IP address is choose the desired domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then type in the IP within the box below. The change shall take effect immediately, so you will not get any traffic from this address in the future. Removing an IP from the blocked list is equally uncomplicated.