From time to time you may need to block specific third parties from accessing your Internet sites. There are a lot of automatic bots which crawl the Internet, for example, and produce fake visits and site traffic. There are spammers who leave links to shady Internet sites as comments to blog articles. Such things could significantly undermine your hard work, as nobody likes to visit a site with countless fake comments, plus the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots can generate high load on the server in which your site is hosted, which could result in the site not functioning properly. One of the best solutions in this case is to block the IPs which create the fake traffic, as a way to make sure that the visits to your website are legitimate.

IP Blocking in Cloud Web Hosting

If you order a cloud web hosting from our company, you'll be able to see in depth traffic statistics for all your websites and if you notice that a lot of the visits to any of them are not legitimate, you can block the IP addresses which have produced the most traffic through our IP Blocking tool. The interface is extremely simple - choose the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then enter the IP address that you'd like to block and save the change. All the addresses you have blacklisted will show up inside the exact 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 could block whole IP ranges using the tool as well - you just need to leave 1 or 2 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.