From time to time you may need to block specific third parties from accessing your Internet sites. There are a lot of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for instance, and generate fake visits and website traffic. In addition, there are spammers who leave links to shady sites as comments to blog articles. This sort of things could considerably undermine your work, as nobody likes to visit an Internet site with hundreds of fake comments, also the increased traffic from both spammers and bots could generate high load on the web server on which your Internet site is hosted, which could result in your site not functioning properly. Among the most effective solutions in cases like this is to block the IPs which generate the fake traffic, in order to be certain that the visits to your Internet site are authentic.

IP Blocking in Web Hosting

If you buy a web hosting from our company, you'll be able to see comprehensive traffic statistics for all of your sites and if you notice that a large amount of the visits to each of them aren't authentic, you'll be able to block the IP addresses which have generated the most traffic via our IP Blocking tool. The interface is extremely simple - select the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then type the IP address that you would like to block and save the change. All the addresses which you have blacklisted shall appear in the same exact section of the Control Panel, so that you can always remove any one of them and allow it to access your website again. You'll be able to block whole IP ranges via the tool as well - you just have to leave 1 or 2 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.