Long story short: in UK, clients in UK, first experience recently of DMCA issues. What a pain. Want to minimise this in future, especially as 90% of thieves, scrapers and spammers are not in the UK.
Virtually all the sites I work on trade exclusively within the UK. Apart from Google, Yahoo and Bing, no-one else outside the UK should be interested.
I therefore want to block access to any IP outside the UK (important spiders aside) with a login page. Anyone I expect to want to view to site can be sent a guest login (overseas directory editors perhaps) and the login page will have a 'request access' form for those that think they should be able to see the site (expats perhaps).
Questions:
1) Is this best done in htaccess or PHP?
2) Apart from the important S/Es, is there anyone else that should have access to my sites?
3) Can experienced members point out threads in the library that provide an introduction to and tips regarding this subject?
Grateful for any pointers, dos / don'ts etc.
