From time to time you may have to block particular third parties from accessing your websites. There are a number of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for example, and produce fake visits and online traffic. In addition, there are spammers who leave links to shady websites as comments to website articles. Such things can considerably undermine your work, since no one likes to visit a site with hundreds of fake comments, not to mention that the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots could create high load on the server on which your site is hosted, which may result in your site not working properly. One of the best solutions in such cases is to block the IPs that generate the fake traffic, in order to make certain that the visits to your website are real.
IP Blocking in Shared Hosting
If you purchase a Linux shared hosting from us, you shall be able to see comprehensive traffic statistics for all of your websites and if you notice that a considerable amount of the visits to each of them aren't legit, you are able to block the IP addresses which have generated the most traffic by using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is very simple - select the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then type the IP address you want to block and save the change. All the addresses which you have blacklisted will appear in the same exact section of the CP, so you're able to always remove any of them and allow it to access your Internet site again. You could block entire IP ranges through the tool as well - you simply need 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 CP, included with our semi-dedicated hosting plans, will enable you to solve the challenge with unwanted traffic very efficiently. It incorporates an IP blocking tool where you could add IP addresses with only several mouse clicks. All domains and subdomains that you have inside the account shall be listed in a drop-down menu, so you only need to select the one you need and then input the IP address that needs to be blocked. If you wish to block an entire range, a C-class network for instance, you just need to type the first 3 octets of the IP and leave the last one blank. This will block all 254 addresses, so you will not have to input them by hand. Since all the IPs that you include in this section shall be listed, you can effortlessly unblock any one of them by clicking the Delete button associated with the particular IP.