Madcityservers's provides the opportunity to apply Firewall rules to its clients hosted in our Infrastructure. These firewall rules apply on an infrastructure level and protect your server without affecting the services running inside it. This option is available for clients having services in all locations. In order to configure the firewall rules, you will need to access your Secure Customer Portal. Then select “Services” → “My Services”. On the next page, you will find a list of all your services in Madcityservers. You can create different rules for each of your service, but no worries we will show you how you can automate the process in case you need to have the same rules in each of your services. Select the service you would like to configure the rules to and navigate to the tab “ Network”. We recommend enabling the firewall and the default policies at the beginning of the process. That way you can see if an additional rule restricts your server. Madcityservers provides the option to create your own Firewall in a whitelisting or blacklisting model of policies. Make sure that your configurations do not restrict the server’s access to the internet. You can always disable the firewall and review the rules in order to make adjustments. When creating a Firewall rule you can opt to restrict a specific type of traffic or to deny all traffic to a port or from a specific IP. Importing/ Exporting Firewall Rules You can make a downloadable JSON file containing all the firewalls rules that you have configured. Madcityservers allows its users to download the related file and restore the same rules and configurations in a new server. That way you can configure the firewall once and copy the rules to each of your machines, or you can have different rules for each server you have provisioned in Madcityservers. The steps to perform this action are: Select the three dots menu next to Create firewall rule As you can see by selecting the “Download Rules” option you will have the JSON file needed. The same file can be used in a new server with the “Restore Rules” option. Select the file that you have downloaded and enable the firewall. The process is that easy.