Once in a while you may need to block specific third parties from accessing your sites. There are a lot of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for example, and produce fake visits and website traffic. There are spammers that leave links to shady websites as comments to site articles. This sort of things may greatly undermine your projects, since no one likes to visit a website with hundreds of fake comments, plus the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots could generate high load on the web server where your website is hosted, which could result in the site not working correctly. One of the best solutions in this case is to block the IPs which produce the fake traffic, so as to make certain that the visits to your Internet site are real.
IP Blocking in Cloud Web Hosting
If you order a Linux cloud web hosting from us, you will be able to see in depth traffic stats for all your websites and if you notice that a considerable amount of the visits to each of them are not real, you are able to block the IP addresses which have created the most traffic via our IP Blocking tool. The interface is quite simple - select the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then enter the IP address that you want to block and save the change. All of the addresses you have blacklisted will appear inside the same section of the CP, so that you can always remove any one of them and enable it to access your Internet site again. You could block whole IP ranges using the tool too - you just need to leave one or two 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
If you host your websites inside a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you wish to block one or a few IP addresses eventually, you'll be able to use the easy-to-use blocking tool, which we've provided with our in-house built Hepsia hosting CP. With several clicks, you'll be able to block specific IPs or entire ranges, if required. All you will need to do is pick any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, select if the blocking must be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that is part of the Internet site, and then enter the IP address that you want to block. For an IP range, you only have to omit the last octet or the last 2 octets of the address with regards to the size of the network that you want to block. All of the addresses you have restricted will be listed in the same exact section and if you want to whitelist any one of them, you will be able to do it with simply a mouse click whenever you want.