IP Blocking
What's IP blocking and what does it mean for site visitors? When is it useful?
Occasionally you might need to block specific third parties from accessing your sites. There are a lot of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for instance, and generate fake visits and online traffic. There's also spammers who leave links to suspicious sites as comments to site articles. This sort of things may drastically undermine your work, as no one likes to visit a website with hundreds of fake comments, also the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots can create high load on the server in which your website is hosted, which could result in your site not functioning properly. One of the best solutions in cases like this is to block the IPs that create the fake traffic, as a way to be sure that the visits to your website are legitimate.
IP Blocking in Hosting
Our hosting come with an IP blocking tool, so in case you want to limit the access to your websites, it shall be able to do this with simply a few clicks. The tool is included with the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all accounts and which is quite simple to use. As you log in and visit the IP blocking section, you will just have to pick a domain or a subdomain hosted within the account and type in the IP address that needs to be blocked. Our system allows you to block whole networks too, so if you type 123.123.123., for instance, this'll block all IP addresses between 123.123.123.1 and 123.123.123.255 from accessing your websites. If you wish to whitelist an IP at some point, you'll be able to unblock it with just a click from the same section.