From time to time you might need to block specific third parties from accessing your websites. There are a lot of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for instance, and produce fake visits and traffic. In addition, there are spammers that leave links to shady sites as comments to website articles. This sort of things can drastically undermine your work, since nobody likes to visit a site with tons of fake comments, furthermore the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots could generate high load on the server where your website is hosted, which could result in your site not working correctly. Among the most effective solutions in this case is to block the IP addresses which produce the fake traffic, in order to make sure that the visits to your website are real.
IP Blocking in Website Hosting
If you have a website hosting account with us and you would like to block one or a few IP addresses, you may use the IP Blocking tool, that is integrated into our in-house built Hepsia CP. Through a rather simple interface, you are able to prevent any IP from accessing your content even if you have never had a web hosting account before. All it requires to do that is to log within to your CP, to visit the IP Blocking section, to select a specific domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to input the IP address. You simply won't need to do anything challenging if you wish to block an entire network - you will just need to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot shall block the entire range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs will be listed inside the exact same section, so you shall be able to remove any one of them from the blacklist with only a mouse click.