Occasionally 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 website traffic. Additionally, there are spammers that leave links to questionable sites as comments to site articles. This type of things can significantly undermine your hard work, since nobody likes to visit a site with many hundreds of fake comments, also the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots could generate high load on the server where your Internet site is hosted, that can result in your site not functioning properly. Among the most effective solutions in this case is to block the IP addresses that produce the fake traffic, in order to be sure that the visits to your Internet site are legitimate.

IP Blocking in Cloud Web Hosting

If you purchase a Linux cloud web hosting service from our company, you will be able to see in depth traffic stats for all your Internet sites and if you notice that a considerable amount of the visits to any of them are not legit, you'll be able to block the IP addresses that have generated the most traffic by using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is really 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 which you have blacklisted will show up inside the same section of the CP, so you're able to always remove any of them and permit it to access your Internet site again. You can block whole IP ranges using the tool as well - you simply need 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 Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts feature a rather simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will allow you to prohibit individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your sites with onlya couple of mouse clicks and you will not have any troubles to accomplish that even if that's your first website hosting account. As soon as you check out the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia CP, you'll just need to choose the domain or subdomain in question from a drop-down list, then input the IP address within a box which you'll see there and you will be ready. To limit the access for an entire network, you need to leave one or more octets blank. For instance, if you type 123.123. and do not type anything within the third and fourth positions, our server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.