“There was a problem connecting to the Akismet server. Please check your server configuration.”

“A network problem or firewall is blocking all connections from your web server to Akismet.com. Akismet cannot work correctly until this is fixed. Please contact your web host or firewall administrator and give them this information about Akismet and firewalls.
Akismet server    Network Status
72.233.69.3     Obstructed
72.233.69.2     Obstructed”

How to solve this akismet error problem? We had reach out ipage support team to get this resolved. The answer we received is that akismet is not supported as its trying to make connection to external server. Ipage are offering secure hosting and with site lock feature and enhanced virus scanning and protection, hence akismet with external server connection will caused problem here.

“Hello,

It seems to an issue with plug-ins, it is trying to connect the external server. We do allow the external server through the cURL, fscok or fopen methods. If any issue please contact the WordPress application administrator.

If you have any further questions, please update the Support Console.

Sincerely,

Davis Keller
Technical Specialist”