Have you ever used Country Block feature of your hosting service?

[Heatman]

Hosting service country block feature is a security or traffic management tools that allows for you to restrict certain geographic location access to your website with the visitor’s IP addresses.

It's usually done to restrict some countries that are well known to carry out malicious activities on a website such as DDoS attacks, spamming and hacking.

When was the last time you used the country block feature and how effective was it?

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I used to.

I used to block India but then started seeing real users from India who aren't spammers. It singles them out and that isn't right. Take @meetdilip for example who I believe is in India. He's a great member with great content. It wouldn't be right to single him out just to block a bunch of spammers.

I don't think I'd block any countries to be honest unless it had to be done.

I'll block out entire email domains, though, like most of the gTLDs that came out a few years ago (.club, .xyz, etc.)

 

[Tracy]

I don't do country blocking at all because you can get valid users from those areas.
Known malicious IP's will get blocked. Generally what I do is control by ASN when it is a server farm but still use managed challenge via CloudFlare.
As mentioned also, I do block a lot of email domains from registration in XF. Those are mainly ones that I have seen spammers use in the past.
Last time I exported it, there were 147 entries in it.

 

[meetdilip]

Thanks Shawn. There are a lot of digital marketing companies in India which do spam. People from all over the world hire them to do that job. I am not sure what you get about India from the media in the US and Europe. But India is the 4th largest economy in the world. 1,463,865,525 people live there according to Google, which makes India the largest by population. You will find all sorts in this 140 + crore population.

Sadly, the good things about India seem to never get enough reach. World's 2nd largest Army, the largest democracy in the world, successfully landed a rover on the Moon. Active Solar, Lunar, and Mars space missions. One of the top IT hub in the world. Google, Microsoft, Adobe etc CEOs were born and finished their studies in India.

To be honest, Chirstopher Columbus went looking for India and accidently " discovered " America. Alexander the Great, who is often referred to as the person who conquered the known world, his army suddenly got tired when he reached India according to certain historians. Having amassed enough wealth, they decided to just go home and relax. Convienience

He was defeated by Chandra Gupta Maurya and had to end his campaign. In the Battle of Kolachal, Dutch Navy was so badly defeated that they had zero role in India subcontinent after that incident.

Great history, amazing culture and some wonderful people keeps India a nice place to be. India is perhaps the only counterweight world has to China. Even though rivals politically these days, China is a great culture and dates around 2000 to 3000 years back, just like India.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

Thanks Shawn. There are a lot of digital marketing companies in India which do spam. People from all over the world hire them to do that job. I am not sure what you get about India from the media in the US and Europe. But India is the 4th largest economy in the world. 1,463,865,525 people live there according to Google, which makes India the largest by population. You will find all sorts in this 140 + crore population.

Sadly, the good things about India seem to never get enough reach. World's 2nd largest Army, the largest democracy in the world, successfully landed a rover on the Moon. Active Solar, Lunar, and Mars space missions. One of the top IT hub in the world. Google, Microsoft, Adobe etc CEOs were born and finished their studies in India.

To be honest, Chirstopher Columbus went looking for India and accidently " discovered " America. Alexander the Great, who is often referred to as the person who conquered the known world, his army suddenly got tired when he reached India according to certain historians. Having amassed enough wealth, they decided to just go home and relax. Convienience

He was defeated by Chandra Gupta Maurya and had to end his campaign. In the Battle of Kolachal, Dutch Navy was so badly defeated that they had zero role in India subcontinent after that incident.

Great history, amazing culture and some wonderful people keeps India a nice place to be. India is perhaps the only counterweight world has to China. Even though rivals politically these days, China is a great culture and dates around 2000 to 3000 years back, just like India.

More of a reason NOT to block India.

 

[Cpvr]

I’ve blocked the entire country zone of Russia and china before via Cloudflare(waf’s) settings.



I’ve also blocked certain zones from hitting my site & asn’s.