Every now and then you may need to block specific third parties from accessing your websites. There are a lot of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for example, and generate fake visits and traffic. There are also spammers who leave links to shady sites as comments to site articles. Such things can greatly undermine your hard work, simply because nobody likes to visit a 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, which may result in the site not functioning properly. One of the best solutions in this case is to block the IP addresses that generate the fake traffic, in order to ensure that the visits to your site are legitimate.
IP Blocking in Shared Web Hosting
Our shared web hosting plans include an IP blocking tool, so in case you want to limit the access to your Internet sites, you will be able to do this with only a couple of mouse clicks. The tool is part of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all accounts and that's very easy to use. When you log in and check out the IP blocking section, you shall just need to select a domain or a subdomain hosted inside the account and enter the IP address which should be blocked. Our system will enable you to block whole networks also, so if you type in 123.123.123., for instance, this shall block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your websites. If you want to whitelist an IP at some point, you can unblock it with simply a click from the same section.