From time to time you may need to block particular third parties from accessing your Internet sites. There are plenty of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for instance, and generate fake visits and website traffic. There are also spammers that leave links to questionable Internet sites as comments to site articles. This kind of things can drastically undermine your work, because nobody likes to visit a site with many hundreds of fake comments, plus the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots may create high load on the web server on which your site is hosted, which may result in the site not working correctly. One of the best solutions in such a case is to block the IP addresses that create the fake traffic, so as to be certain that the visits to your site are real.

IP Blocking in Website Hosting

If you purchase a Linux website hosting from our company, you shall be able to see comprehensive traffic stats for all of your Internet sites and if you notice that a lot of the visits to each of them aren't real, you'll be able to block the IP addresses that have produced the most traffic by using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is very simple - select the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then type in the IP address you want to block and save the change. All of the addresses you have blacklisted will appear in the exact same section of the Control Panel, allowing you to always remove any one of them and permit it to access your site again. You'll be able to block whole IP ranges via the tool as well - you simply 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.