Once in a while you may need to block certain third parties from accessing your websites. There are a number of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for instance, and create fake visits and online traffic. Additionally, there are spammers that leave links to shady sites as comments to blog articles. This sort of things could drastically undermine your hard work, as no one likes to visit a site with tons of fake comments, not to mention that the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots could 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 produce the fake traffic, so as to be certain that the visits to your website are real.

IP Blocking in Web Hosting

If you order a Linux web hosting from our company, you will be able to see in depth traffic stats for all your sites and if you notice that a considerable amount of the visits to any of them aren't authentic, you could block the IP addresses that have generated the most traffic through our IP Blocking tool. The interface is quite 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 that you have blacklisted shall appear inside the same section of the CP, allowing you to always remove any of them and allow it to access your site again. You could block entire IP ranges using the tool as well - you just have 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 shall be able to block IP addresses with ease and stop the unwanted traffic to any Internet site hosted within a semi-dedicated server account with us, as we offer a very easy-to-use tool to do that, which is part of our Hepsia hosting CP. Even if you have never addressed this sort of matters in the past, you shall not have any difficulties, since our tool includes a very user-friendly interface. As soon as you go to the IP blocking section of the CP, you shall 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 pick the desired domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and type the IP inside the box below. The change will take effect at once, so you'll not get any traffic from this address in the future. Removing an IP from the blocked list is just as easy.