Once in a while you may need to block particular third parties from accessing your websites. There are a number of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for instance, and generate fake visits and online traffic. There's also spammers who leave links to questionable websites as comments to blog articles. Such things could drastically undermine your projects, since no one likes to visit a website with tons of fake comments, furthermore the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots could create high load on the server on which your website is hosted, that can result in the site not working properly. Among the most effective solutions in this case is to block the IPs that produce the fake traffic, so as to be certain that the visits to your site are legitimate.

IP Blocking in Website Hosting

If you purchase a website hosting plan from our company, you'll be able to see detailed traffic statistics for all of your sites and if you notice that a considerable amount of the visits to each of them are not legit, you may block the IP addresses that have created the most traffic via our IP Blocking tool. The interface is very simple - choose the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then input the IP address that you would like to block and save the change. All the addresses that you've blacklisted shall appear inside the exact same section of the Control Panel, so you can always remove any one of them and permit it to access your site again. You'll be able to block whole IP ranges using the tool also - you just need to leave one or two octets from the address blank. As an example, entering 1.2.3. will block all 254 IPs from 1.2.3.1 to 1.2.3.255.