If you find that people from a particular location are abusing your website (check your error logs and raw Apache logs), you can choose to block their IP address.
You can block a particular address from accessing your site, or you can block an entire range of IP addresses from being able to access your site. This area will also list any IP addresses that you are currently blocking. For example, 111.111.111.111
will block only that IP address, whereas entering 111.111.111
will block all addresses from 111.111.111.0
to 111.111.111.255
, both inclusive. This will only block people from accessing your website and not other services such as mail, FTP, and so on.