From time to time you may need to block certain third parties from accessing your Internet sites. There are a number of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for instance, and produce fake visits and website traffic. In addition, there are spammers that leave links to suspicious websites as comments to site articles. This sort of things could considerably undermine your hard work, since no one likes to visit an Internet site with hundreds of fake comments, also the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots can generate high load on the web server on which your Internet site is hosted, which may result in your site not working correctly. Among the most effective solutions in such a case is to block the IP addresses that create the fake traffic, so as to be sure that the visits to your website are authentic.

IP Blocking in Shared Hosting

If you get a Linux shared hosting from our company, you'll be able to see detailed traffic stats for all your Internet sites and if you notice that a lot of the visits to each of them are not legit, you'll be able to block the IP addresses which have generated the most traffic via our IP Blocking tool. The interface is very simple - select the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then input the IP address that you would like to block and save the change. All the addresses you have blacklisted shall appear in the same exact section of the CP, so that you can always remove any of them and permit it to access your website again. You could block whole IP ranges via the tool too - you just 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 Hosting

You shall be able to block IP addresses with ease and stop the unwanted traffic to any site hosted in a semi-dedicated server account with our company, because we offer a rather easy-to-use tool to do that, which is part of our Hepsia hosting CP. Even if you have not addressed this sort of matters in the past, you'll not have any difficulties, since our tool features a very user-friendly interface. As soon as you go to the IP blocking section of the CP, you'll find a complete list of all the domains and subdomains that you've added in the Hosted Domains section. All you need to do to block an IP address is choose the desired domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and input the IP in the box below. The change will take effect instantly, so you will not get any traffic from this address in the future. Removing an IP from the blocked list is just as easy.