From time to time you may have to block certain third parties from accessing your websites. There are a number of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for example, and generate fake visits and traffic. In addition, there are spammers who leave links to shady Internet sites as comments to blog articles. Such things could significantly undermine your hard work, because nobody likes to visit an Internet site with countless fake comments, plus the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots could generate high load on the server on which your website is hosted, that could result in the site not working properly. Among the most effective solutions in cases like this is to block the IP addresses which generate the fake traffic, so as to be sure that the visits to your site are legitimate.
IP Blocking in Shared Hosting
If you have a shared hosting account with our company and you wish to block one or several IP addresses, you can use the IP Blocking tool, which is included in our in-house built Hepsia CP. Using a pretty simple interface, you are able to restrict any IP from accessing your content even if you have not had a web hosting account before. All it requires to do that is to log in to your CP, to check out the IP Blocking section, to choose a particular domain or subdomain from a drop-down menu and then to type in the IP address. You shall not have to do anything complicated if you would like to block a whole network - you will simply have to omit the last octet, so entering 1.1.1. with a blank space after the last dot shall block the whole range from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255. All blocked IPs shall be listed inside the very same section, so you'll be able to remove any of them from the blacklist with simply a click.