Occasionally you may have to block specific third parties from accessing your websites. There are a lot of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for instance, and produce fake visits and website traffic. There's also spammers who leave links to shady sites as comments to website articles. This sort of things can greatly undermine your projects, since no one likes to visit a website with many fake comments, plus the increased traffic from both spammers and bots may generate high load on the web server where your Internet site is hosted, which may result in your site not functioning properly. One of the best solutions in such a case is to block the IPs which create the fake traffic, so as to ensure that the visits to your website are authentic.
IP Blocking in Cloud Website Hosting
If you purchase a cloud website hosting plan from us, you will be able to see comprehensive traffic stats for all of your websites and if you notice that many of the visits to any of them aren't authentic, you can block the IP addresses that have produced the most traffic by using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is quite simple - choose 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 you have blacklisted shall appear in the very same section of the CP, allowing you to always remove any one of them and enable it to access your site 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.