From time to time you may have to block particular third parties from accessing your Internet sites. There are a number of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for example, and produce fake visits and traffic. Additionally, there are spammers who leave links to suspicious websites as comments to site articles. This kind of things could significantly undermine your work, since no one likes to visit a site with tons of fake comments, furthermore the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots may create high load on the web server on which your site is hosted, which may result in the site not working properly. Among the most effective solutions in such a case is to block the IPs that generate the fake traffic, as a way to ensure that the visits to your website are real.

IP Blocking in Hosting

If you buy a Linux hosting from our company, you shall be able to see comprehensive traffic statistics for all your Internet sites and if you notice that a large amount of the visits to each of them are not legit, you are able to block the IP addresses that have generated the most traffic through our IP Blocking tool. The interface is quite simple - pick the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then type the IP address that you'd like to block and save the change. All the addresses that you have blacklisted will appear in the same section of the Control Panel, allowing you to always remove any one of them and permit it to access your site again. You are able to block entire IP ranges via the tool as well - you just have 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 Servers

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, included with our semi-dedicated hosting plans, will allow you to solve the issue with unwanted traffic very easily. It incorporates an IP blocking tool in which you could add IP addresses with only several clicks. All domains and subdomains which you have inside the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only need to pick the one you need and then type in the IP address that should be blocked. If you want to block an entire range, a C-class network for instance, you simply need to enter the first 3 octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. This shall block all 254 addresses, so you will not have to enter them by hand. Considering that all the IPs you add in this section will be listed, you can effortlessly unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button related to the particular IP.