Blocking countries from your website
A digital marketer I work with sent me a message last week. They were burning ad spend on traffic from regions they couldn’t sell to, getting hammered by bot requests from certain countries, and had read somewhere that you could just “add something to .htaccess” to fix it. They weren’t wrong. But they weren’t quite right either. Country blocking sounds simple. In practice, the right solution depends on your web server, whether you’re behind Cloudflare, your traffic volume, and how much maintenance overhead you’re willing to carry. This guide covers the two implementations I actually use in production, plus a few things the tutorials tend to skip. ...