From time to time you may have to block particular third parties from accessing your Internet sites. There are plenty of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for instance, and create fake visits and online traffic. In addition, there are spammers that leave links to questionable sites as comments to site articles. Such things may considerably undermine your work, as nobody likes to visit an Internet site with countless fake comments, furthermore the increased traffic from both spammers and bots could create high load on the web server on which your website is hosted, which could result in the site not functioning properly. Among the most effective solutions in this case is to block the IPs that create the fake traffic, so as to be certain that the visits to your website are legitimate.

IP Blocking in Shared Website Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool is included with the advanced Hepsia hosting CP, provided with all shared website hosting accounts. It shall enable you to block addresses with just a few mouse clicks. No coding abilities are required, due to the fact that you will use an intuitive interface - you just need to select a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and type the IP address that you'd like to be blocked. You shall be able to see all the IP addresses which you have added in the very same section and whitelisting each of them shall take simply a click. If you notice your site is being flooded by numerous IPs, you shall be able to block an entire IP range as well. This could be performed by omitting the last number of the address. For instance, if you would like to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you basically have to type in 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .