Occasionally you may have to block particular third parties from accessing your Internet sites. There are plenty of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for example, and generate fake visits and site traffic. In addition, there are spammers that leave links to shady sites as comments to blog articles. This sort of things can considerably undermine your projects, since no one likes to visit a website with many fake comments, not to mention that the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots can generate high load on the web server on which your website is hosted, which can result in your site not functioning properly. One of the best solutions in such cases is to block the IP addresses which produce the fake traffic, as a way to be sure that the visits to your website are authentic.
IP Blocking in Web Hosting
If you purchase a web hosting from us, you shall be able to see in depth traffic stats for all of your websites and if you notice that many of the visits to any of them aren't legit, you are able to block the IP addresses which have generated the most traffic using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is incredibly simple - choose 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 you have blacklisted will appear inside the exact same section of the CP, so that you can always remove any of them and allow it to access your website again. You'll be able to block entire IP ranges using the tool too - you just have 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, included with our Linux semi-dedicated hosting, will allow you to solve the matter with unwanted traffic very quickly and easily. It includes an IP blocking tool where you can add IP addresses with a few mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains which you have in the account will be listed in a drop-down menu, so you simply have to pick the one you need and then input the IP address which 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 3 octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. That will block all 254 addresses, so you'll not have to input them manually. As all the IPs you add in this section shall be listed, you could very easily unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button related to the given IP.