Limiting Number of simultaneous connections To limit the number of simultaneous connections to a directory or your entire site , use the below line. If you place it in a directory other than the root directory, then it will limit the connections to that directory and its sub-directories only . Placing it in htaccess file of root directory will implement it for entire site . Syntax: MaxClients < number-of-connections> Examples: MaxClients 40 MaxClients 100 Allow/Disallow certain visitors from accessing your site To accomplish it use the following lines. Look at the syntax first: Syntax: Order allow,deny Deny from < incoming -address > Allow from < incoming -address> The first line [Order allow,deny] tells what should be done first. The second line tells about denying incoming-addresses [could be a single IP, an IP block, domain name and all] and third line tells about the incoming-addresses [could be a single IP, an IP block, domain name and all] thos...