Let, you want to protect a page or any site in nginx by certain IP addresses access only. How would you do it in nginx? I will discuss some cases here about the situation.

You might somehow face a huge traffic on your site which is not legitimate at all and kind of DOS. If you can identify the traffic which eventually lessen the site performance by the Basic HTTP Floods DOS, you can save yourself from being affected by mild DOS attack. I will show you how can lessen the chance of being easily affected by those attacks.