From time to time you may have to block particular third parties from accessing your websites. There are plenty of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for example, and create fake visits and website traffic. There are also spammers who leave links to suspicious Internet sites as comments to blog articles. This kind of things may significantly undermine your projects, because nobody likes to visit an Internet site with tons of fake comments, also the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots can create high load on the web server on which your website is hosted, which may result in your site not working properly. Among the most effective solutions in such cases is to block the IP addresses which generate the fake traffic, as a way to make sure that the visits to your website are real.

IP Blocking in Cloud Website Hosting

If you purchase a cloud website hosting from us, you'll be able to see in depth traffic statistics for all your Internet sites and if you notice that a lot of the visits to any of them aren't legitimate, you could block the IP addresses that have created the most traffic using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is extremely simple - choose the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then input the IP address you want to block and save the change. All the addresses you have blacklisted will show up inside the very same section of the Control Panel, allowing you to always remove any of them and enable it to access your Internet site again. You can block whole IP ranges through the tool also - you just need 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.