Every now and then you may have to block specific third parties from accessing your sites. There are a lot of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for example, and produce fake visits and online traffic. There are spammers who leave links to shady sites as comments to website articles. This kind of things may considerably undermine your projects, because no one likes to visit a site with hundreds of fake comments, also the increased site traffic from both spammers and bots could create high load on the server where your site is hosted, which can result in your site not functioning properly. One of the best solutions in this case is to block the IP addresses which produce the fake traffic, so as to make sure that the visits to your site are real.

IP Blocking in Shared Website Hosting

If you buy a shared website hosting from our company, you will be able to see comprehensive traffic stats for all of your websites and if you notice that a lot of the visits to each of them are not authentic, you are able to block the IP addresses which have produced the most traffic through our IP Blocking tool. The interface is incredibly simple - select the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then type the IP address that you want to block and save the change. All the addresses which you have blacklisted will appear inside the same exact section of the CP, so you're able to always remove any of them and enable it to access your website again. You can block entire IP ranges via the tool too - you just have 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.