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 example, and generate fake visits and online traffic. There are also spammers who leave links to questionable Internet sites as comments to site articles. This type of things could drastically undermine your hard work, because no one likes to visit a website with many fake comments, furthermore the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots may create high load on the server where your website is hosted, that can result in the site not functioning properly. One of the best solutions in such a case is to block the IPs that generate the fake traffic, in order to be certain that the visits to your Internet site are authentic.
IP Blocking in Shared Hosting
If you purchase a Linux shared hosting package from our company, you'll be able to see detailed traffic statistics for all of your websites and if you notice that a large amount of the visits to each of them aren't legitimate, you could block the IP addresses that have produced the most traffic using our IP Blocking tool. The interface is really simple - select the needed domain or subdomain from a drop-down list, then input the IP address that you would like to block and save the change. All the addresses that you've blacklisted will appear in the same section of the Control Panel, so you're able to always remove any one of them and enable it to access your website again. You can block whole IP ranges through the tool also - you just have to leave 1 or 2 octets from the address blank. As an example, entering 1.2.3. will block all 254 IPs from 1.2.3.1 to 1.2.3.255.