IP Blocking
What's IP blocking and what does it mean for website visitors? When is it helpful?
Once in a while you may have to block certain third parties from accessing your sites. There are a lot of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for example, and create fake visits and online traffic. There's also spammers that leave links to questionable Internet sites as comments to website articles. This sort of things may drastically undermine your projects, simply because no one likes to visit a site with hundreds of fake comments, furthermore the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots could create high load on the server on which your Internet site is hosted, which may result in the site not working correctly. Among the most effective solutions in cases like this is to block the IPs that create the fake traffic, as a way to make sure that the visits to your website are authentic.
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IP Blocking in Website Hosting
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Linux website hosting feature an IP blocking tool, so if you'd like to limit the access to your sites, you will be able to do so with a few clicks. The tool is provided with the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all accounts and that's super easy to use. As soon as you log in and visit the IP blocking section, you'll just need to pick a domain or a subdomain hosted inside the account and type in the IP address that needs to be blocked. Our system enables you to block entire networks too, 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 Internet sites. In case you want to whitelist an IP at some point, you could unblock it with a mouse click from the same section.
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IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers
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semi-dedicated server accounts come with a rather simple-to-use IP blocking tool, which will allow you to prohibit individual IPs or even entire networks from accessing your sites with justa few mouse clicks and you won't have any troubles to achieve that even if that is your first website hosting account. Once you navigate to the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia Control Panel, you'll only have to pick the domain or subdomain you want from a drop-down list, then type the IP address within a box that you'll see there and you will be all set. To prohibit the access for a whole network, you will need to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you type in 123.123. and don't type anything in the third and fourth positions, our web server will deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.