Occasionally you may need to block certain third parties from accessing your sites. There are a lot of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for instance, and create fake visits and website traffic. There are spammers that leave links to suspicious Internet sites as comments to site articles. This sort of things could greatly undermine your projects, as nobody likes to visit an Internet site with hundreds of fake comments, not to mention that the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots can create high load on the web server in which your website is hosted, which can result in your site not working properly. Among the most effective solutions in such cases is to block the IPs that create the fake traffic, so as to be certain that the visits to your site are legitimate.

IP Blocking in Hosting

If you get a hosting plan from us, you shall be able to see detailed traffic stats for all of your websites and if you notice that a considerable amount of the visits to any of them aren't authentic, you may block the IP addresses that have produced the most traffic by using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is incredibly simple - choose the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then type the IP address that you'd like to block and save the change. All the addresses you have blacklisted will show up inside the same exact section of the Control Panel, so you're able to always remove any one of them and allow it to access your Internet site again. You can block whole IP ranges via the tool too - you just need to leave one or two octets from the address blank. For example, entering 1.2.3. will block all 254 IPs from 1.2.3.1 to 1.2.3.255.