Once in a while you may need to block certain third parties from accessing your Internet sites. There are a lot of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for example, and generate fake visits and traffic. In addition, there are spammers that leave links to shady sites as comments to website articles. This kind of things can greatly undermine your hard work, simply because nobody likes to visit a site with many fake comments, plus the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots may generate high load on the server on which your website is hosted, which could result in the site not working correctly. Among the most effective solutions in cases like this is to block the IP addresses that generate the fake traffic, as a way to be sure that the visits to your site are real.

IP Blocking in Cloud Website Hosting

If you buy a Linux cloud website hosting package from us, you will be able to see in depth traffic statistics for all of your sites and if you notice that a large amount of the visits to any of them are not legit, you'll be able to block the IP addresses which have created the most traffic by using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is quite simple - pick the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then enter the IP address that you want to block and save the change. All of the addresses that you have blacklisted will appear in the very same section of the CP, so you're able to always remove any of them and permit it to access your Internet site again. You can block entire IP ranges through the tool as well - you just have to leave one or two octets from the address blank. For instance, entering 1.2.3. will block all 254 IPs from 1.2.3.1 to 1.2.3.255.